Unit 6: Week 4 Quizizz Review

Massive pieces of land that are part of the Earth's crust and upper mantle

• Tectonic plates
• Trenches
• Divergent boundary
• Continental shelves

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The deepest part of the ocean; long, narrow ditches

• Tectonic plates
• Trenches
• Divergent boundary
• Continental shelves

___________ help explain why Earth is not getting any larger even though the tectonic plates are always moving.

• earthquakes
• subduction zones
• fossils
• volcanoes

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The OLDEST seafloor is located? 

• Closest to the mid-ocean ridge
• Farthest from the mid-ocean ridge

True or False : Sea-floor Spreading adds new material to the ocean floor?

• True
• False

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The oceanic crust _________ when it reaches the continental crust.

• sinks
• rises
• expands

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If there are MORE mid-ocean ridges than subduction zones, what happens to the ocean?

• It gets larger
• It gets smaller
• It sinks

What is one piece of evidence of seafloor spreading?

• age of the rocks

• old rock pushes new rock to the side

• scientist can use sonar

• subduction

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What is the process happening at R?

• Deep ocean trench

• mid ocean ridge

• subduction

• sea floor spreading

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At the Mid-Ocean Ridge and active volcanoes you can find:

• fault lines

• earthquakes

• older crust

• newest crust

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