Earth's Crust in Motion

The crust and the rigid layer of the mantle connected to the crust is called:

• Asthenosphere

• Lithosphere

• Tectonic Plates

• Outer Core

When plates move away from each other, they create ______, rock layers that are pulled apart.

• Faults

• Plates

• Volcanoes

• Continental Drift

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Alfred Wegener's theory of CONTINENTAL DRIFT suggests that the continents were connected as a huge landmass called:

• Convection Currents

• Tectonic Plates

• Pangaea

• Fault-Block Mountains

Uneven heating of the mantle causes, __________ ________, the cycling of heat that drags the plates aroung

• Continental Drift

• Folded Mountains

• Volcanic Mountains

• Convection Currents

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The boundary between plates moving APART is called a:

• Divergent Boundary

• Convergent Boundary

• Seafloor Spreading

• Continental Drift

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As plates along the ocean bed spread apart, hot magma is forced upward and flows through the cracks, forming ridges of igneous rock called BASALT. This is the theory of ________ _________.

• Divergent Boundary

• Convergent Boundary

• Seafloor Spreading

• Continental Drift

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The boundary between plates moving TOWARD each other is called a:

• Divergent Boundary

• Convergent Boundary

• Seafloor Spreading

• Continental Drift

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When a plate sinks into the mantle it is called:

• Continental Drift

• Subduction

• Lithosphere

• Pangaea

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There are 2 types of plates:

• Oceanic and Continental

• Divergent and Convergent

• Paper and Plastic

• Folded and Volcanic

When plates slide past each other in different directions, their edges can scrape, causing:

• Tsunamis

• Lava

• Pangaea

• Earthquakes

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