Ch 17.3 & 17.4 - Plate Boundaries and Convection Currents

What type of plate boundary is this? (a)  

• Transform
• Convergent
• Divergent

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What type of plate boundary is this? (a)  

• Transform
• Convergent
• Divergent

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What type of plate boundary is this?

• Transform

• Convergent

• Divergent

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What type of plate boundary is this? (a)  

• Transform
• Convergent
• Divergent

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What type of plate boundary is this? (a)  

• Transform
• Convergent
• Divergent

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What is happening in the picture?

• layers of the Earth are changing positions

• the inner and outer core are solid

• convection currents are causing the tectonic plates to move

• the mantle is growing

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Two plates scrape and slide past each other at (a)  

• convergent boundaries
• divergent boundaries
• transform boundaries
• magnetic boundaries

New crust forms along a(n)

• subduction zone

• divergent boundary

• convergent boundary

• transform boundary

A (a)   plate is a large slab of crust and upper mantle that moves over the earth's surface.

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The point where one plate slides beneath another is known as the ______________.

• lithosphere

• Pangaea

• subduction zone

• tectonic

• Wegener

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