Earth's Crust Quiz

What are Tectonic plates?

• Large moving pieces on Earth's surface that are made of rock.

• where two plates divide

• The inner core of the earth

• where magma rises up and solidifies

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What is continental drift?

• Made of igneous rock

• Where two plates collide

• Theory that all of earths continents were once joined together in a singe, huge land mass and then started drifting away from each other.

• The process by which new oceanic crust forms when when magma rises up.

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What is pangaea?

• Huge supercontinent that existed millions of years ago,

• Where two plates slide

• Where two plates divide

• Where two plates collide

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What are Convergent Plate Boundaries?

• Where two plates divide

• Where two plates collide

• Where two plates slide

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What are Transform Plate Boundaries?

• Where two plates divide

• Where two plates collide

• Where two plates slide

What is subduction?

• where one tectonic plate sinks below another

• Where two plates slide

• Where two plates divide

• Where two plates collide

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How do tectonic plates move?

• Wind

• Convection currents

• Water

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What is seafloor spreading?

• Large pieces of lithosphere that move.

• Layer made up of the crust and uppermost mantle

• The super continent that existed millions of years ago

• Process by which new oceanic crust forms when magma rises up and solidifies at the mid-ocean ridge.

What 2 pieces of evidence are there for continental drift?

• continents fit like a jigsaw puzzle and fossil record

• similar mountain ranges around the world, one plant species on all continents

• gold and diamond deposits on all continents

• none of the above

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The large pieces of the Earth's crust are called:

• Tectonic plates

• Land ridges

• Continental chunks

• none of the above

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