Plate Tectonics

Oceanic Trenches are formed by either _______ or _______ plate boundaries

• Convergent Oceanic / Continental

• Convergent Continental / Continental

• Convergent Oceanic / Oceanic

• Divergent

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What landform would most likely form at this plate boundary? Choose 2 correct answers.

• mountains

• volcanoes

• trenches

• mid-ocean ridges

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What causes convection currents?

• Hot magma rises while cool magma sinks

• The rotation of the Earth

• Ocean currents pulling plates apart

• The spinning of the Earth's core

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What are the puzzle pieces of the Earth's surface called?

• Tectonic plates
• Puzzles
• Earthquakes

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Which of the following is an accurate description of the movement of the tectonic plates in the diagram?

• Plate A is sliding past plate B.

• Plate A and plate B are diverging.

• Plate A and plate B are of equal density and are colliding.

• Plate A is denser than plate B, which results in subduction.

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Where does subduction occur?

• along the middle of the ocean floors

• down the middle of the mountain ranges

• on continents

• at deep-ocean trenches

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The model below shows two continental plates. What type of plate boundary is this

• Transform boundary

• Divergent boundary

• Subduction boundary

• Convergent boundary

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The image shows a plate boundary. Arrows have been added to indicate the movement of the plates.What plate boundary feature is also shown?

• A ridge formed by an inactive convergent boundary

• A valley forming at an active divergent boundary

• A fault forming at an active transform boundary

• A volcano formed by an active transform boundary

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The outer layer of the Earth (the crust) is the...

• Mantle

• Asthenosphere

• Lithosphere

• Crust

Lystrosaurus was a slow-moving, plant-eating reptile that lived over 250 million years ago. Fossils of Lystrosaurus have been found in the brown areas shown below. How is this explained by the existence of Pangaea?

• Lystrosaurus swam across the oceans from one continent to another.

• Lystrosaurus drifted on rafts of vegetation from one continent to another.

• and bridges once crossed oceans to connect Africa, Antarctica, and India.

• Africa, Antarctica, and India used to be joined together into a single landmass.

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