Plate Boundaries Practice Quiz

What is the theory of plate tectonics?

• It is melted rock that has been pushed out of the Earth.

• It is melted rock that is still within the Earth.

• The idea that the earth’s crust is broken into pieces that can move.

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What causes earthquakes?

• The idea that the earth’s crust is broken into pieces that can move.

• When Tectonic plates move or rub up against each other.

• It is both types of crust, the oceanic crust and the continental crust as well as the top part of the mantle that is rigid,

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Why are some earthquakes stronger than others?

• If tectonic plates get stuck when they are trying to move, pressure builds up until it is released suddenly.

• When one plate gets pushed under another plate.

• The idea that the earth’s crust is broken into pieces that can move.

• When Tectonic plates move or rub up against each other.

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What is the asthenosphere?

• It is both types of crust, the oceanic crust and the continental crust as well as the top part of the mantle that is mostly solid.

• It is melted rock that is still within the Earth

• It is the solid/liquid upper part of the mantle of the Earth that that the tectonic plates are sliding around on.

• Subduction zones

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What is the lithosphere?

• It is both types of crust, the oceanic crust and the continental crust as well as the top part of the mantle that is rigid,

• Where tectonic plates are moving away from each other. Underwater, they expose lava which makes new land.

• Convection currents in the mantle.

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What is magma?

• Subduction zones

• When one plate gets pushed under another plate.

• It is melted rock that has been pushed out of the Earth.

• It is melted rock that is still within the Earth.

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What is lava?

• Subduction zones

• When one plate gets pushed under another plate.

• It is melted rock that has been pushed out of the Earth.

• It is melted rock that is still within the Earth.

Where do the most powerful volcanoes usually form?

• Subduction zones/Convergent Boundaries

• Divergent Boundaries

• Transform Boundaries

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What is subduction?

• Where tectonic plates are moving next to each other, slipping past each other.

• When one plate gets pushed under another plate.

• Lava comes up and pushes the two plates away. This makes new land under the ocean.

• Convection currents in the mantle.

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Which boundary is this?

• Asthenospherian

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Transform

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