Plate Tectonics

Plate Tectonics

9th Grade

13 Qs

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Plate Tectonics

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A ______ is a section of the lithosphere that slowly moves over the asthenosphere, carrying large slabs of continental and oceanic crust.

wedge
plate
chunk
fault

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A break in Earth's crust along which rocks move is called a ________.

plate
rift
fault
breach

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the name of the single landmass that began to break apart 200 million years ago?

Panthalassa
Laurasia
Gondwanna
Pangaea

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The process by which molten material adds new oceanic crust to the ocean floor is called ___________.

Divergent boundary
Sea-floor spreading
Convergent boundary
Renovating 

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary?

Subduction
Induction
Abduction 
Reduction

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

_____________ is a plate boundary where two plates move away from each other.

Convergent boundary
Transform boundary
Divergent boundary
Insurgent boundary

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

_____________ is when two plates move toward each other.

Convergent boundary
Allegiant boundary
Transform boundary
Sliding boundary

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