Chapter 6 Lesson 2 Quiz

Many ___________ form along convergent boundaries.

• volcanoes
• rivers
• oceans

The lithosphere moves only a few _______ a year.

• centimeters
• miles
• kilometers
• yards

The major plates are named after the __________ or continents they carry

• oceans
• mountains
• rivers
• plateaus

____________ is a chain of mountains that runs about 41,500 miles through the world's oceans.

• Mid-ocean ridge
• Ashthenosphere
• Lithosphere
• Sea floor spreading

___________ - a deep valley at the highest part of the mid-ocean ridge.

• Rift
• Mid-ocean ridge
• Pangea
• Fault

The process, which takes place along the mid-ocean ridge, in which liquid rock rises and becomes solid as two tectonic plates move farther and farther apart is called ______________.

• Sea floor spreading
• Rift
• Mid-ocean ridge
• Pangea

The San Andreas fault in California is an example of a ____________ fault.

• Transform
• Convergent
• Divergent

Scientists have concluded that all the continents once formed a single supercontinent called ____________.

• Pangea
• Rift
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• Lithosphere

A _____________ is a break in Earth's crust where rocks can slide past each other.

• fault
• lithosphere
• asthenosphere
• rift

The crust and the rigid upper part of the mantle form the part of the Earth called the _________________.

• Lithosphere
• Asthenosphere
• Pangea
• Continents