Plate Tectonics Quiz Review

​ ​ ​ (a)   boundaries are where plates pull apart from each other. ​ (b)   boundaries are where plates slide past each other

• Divergent
• Transform
• Fault Line
• Oceanic Ridge

Match boundary types to the picture

• Divergent

• 
• Convergent

• 
• Transform

• 

Match the type of boundary with the events

• Creates new crust

• Convergent

• Creates and destroys crust

• Transform

• No crust is created or destroyed

• Divergent

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Seafloor spread occurs because....

• Plates are smashing together and oozing apart

• Magma below the Earth's crust is forced up toward the surface after plates move apart

• Maui is trying to break out of his prison

• The Earth's magnetic poles are reversing

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The theory that the Earth's crust and upper mantle are broken into pieces is called

• Seafloor Spread

• Plate Tectonics

• Continental Drift

• Pangea

Match the following

• Convection Currents

• Seen in the alignment of metal in rocks....

• Reversal of Earth's Magnetic Poles

• The driving force behind what causes the Earth's plates to move

• Subduction

• 
• Pangea

• Process of one plate being pulled under another

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The ​ (a)   sits on top of the ​ (b)  

• lithosphere
• asthenosphere
• mantle
• Crust
• plates
• crust

Convergent boundaries form....

• Volcanoes

• Subduction Zones

• Mountains

• Trenches

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