Plate Tectonics Review

The process of hot stuff becoming less dense and rising, then cooling and becoming more dense and sinking is called

• conduction

• convection

• radiation

• subduction

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The idea that the continents were once joined together in one large landmass that then broke apart and slowly drifted to where they are today is called the

• seafloor spreading theory.

• plate tectonics theory.

• continental drift theory.

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Wegener's supercontinent was known as

• Glossopteris

• Eurasia

• Pangea

• Gondwandaland

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The lithosphere (crust) is broken into sections called

• plates

• faults

• ridges

• trenches

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The movement of tectonic plates are generally thought to be caused by

• volcanoes.

• convection currents.

• earthquakes.

• wind.

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The process of magma rising from the mantle and spreading out at the mid-ocean ridge is called

• trenching

• seafloor spreading

• continental drift

• tectonicking

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Really big mountains form at which boundary?

• divergent

• convergent

• transform

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Seafloor spreading occurs at which type of boundary?

• divergent

• convergent

• transform

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The San Andreas Fault is located on a ____ boundary.

• divergent

• convergent

• transform

Plates collide at a ___ boundary.

• divergent

• convergent

• transform

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