Plate Tectonics and Earth's Crust

What is the process by which new ocean lithosphere forms as magma rises toward the surface and solidifies?

• Convergent Boundary

• Divergent Boundary

• Transform Boundary

• Sea-Floor Spreading

What is the theory that explains how large pieces of the Earth's outermost layer, called tectonic plates, move and change shape?

• Plate Tectonics

• Compression

• Tension

• Shearing

What is the boundary formed by the collision of two tectonic plates?

• Convergent Boundary

• Divergent Boundary

• Transform Boundary

• Shearing

What is the boundary between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other?

• Convergent Boundary

• Divergent Boundary

• Transform Boundary

• Compression

What is the boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally?

• Convergent Boundary

• Divergent Boundary

• Transform Boundary

• Tension

What is the stress that occurs when forces act to squeeze an object?

• Compression

• Tension

• Shearing

• Folding

What is the stress that occurs when forces act to stretch an object?

• Compression

• Tension

• Shearing

• Folding

What is the stress that pushes a rock in two opposite directions?

• Compression

• Tension

• Shearing

• Folding

What is the bending of rock layers due to stress?

• Compression

• Tension

• Shearing

• Folding

What is a break in a body of rock along which one block slides relative to another?

• Normal Fault

• Reverse Fault

• Strike-Slip Fault

• Folding