Earth's Processes

Look at the diagram. Choose the sentence that BEST describes what is happening.

• New oceanic crust is being made

• The denser oceanic crust is subducting under the less dense oceanic crust

• A mountain chain is being formed

• The tectonic plates are moving away from each other.

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The map in the picture shows tectonic plate boundaries. This map would be useful in predicting the location of future

• droughts

• hurricanes

• earthquakes

• tornadoes

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What geological forces might be responsible for this range of mountains?

• diverging tectonic plates
• erosion of the land by the ocean
• converging tectonic plates
• deposition of sediments by the ocean
  

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At divergent boundaries, magma rises from the mantle and erupts

• along the edges of all the continents.

• along mid-ocean ridges.

• in deep-ocean trenches.

• at the north and south poles.

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The process by which the ocean floor sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle is known as _______

• convection.

• continental drift.

• subduction.

• conduction.

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The place where two plates come together is known as a _______

• transform boundary.

• divergent boundary.

• convergent boundary.

• rift valley.

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Divergent plates move _______ each other.

• away from

• towards

• underneath of

• over-top of

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What surface feature is formed at a divergent boundary?

• mid-ocean ridge

• ocean trench

• mountain range

• atoll

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What features form at a subduction zone?

• volcanoes and an ocean trench

• a mid-ocean ridge and an ocean trench

• mountains and a mid-ocean ridge

• atolls and canyons

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Subduction happens at ___________ boundaries.

• transform

• convergent

• divergent

• all three types of