Plate Tectonics

Which of the following features is likely to form where two tectonic plates push toward each other?

• Ocean shoreline

• Mountain range

• Mid-ocean ridge

• Rift valley

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A mid-ocean RIDGE is located at the boundary of two tectonic plates. Which diagram correctly models the relative plate motion on each side of a mid ocean ridge?

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The San Andreas fault is a transform fault. The map below shows a student's approximation of where the fault line crosses through the United States. Students were asked to make maps predicting which way land would most likely move over thousands of years.

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What type of plate boundary is this?

• Plate

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Transform

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What type of plate boundary is this?

• Transform
• Convergent
• Divergent
• Plate

Scientists hypothesize that a super continent existed 200 million years ago.  This continent is called

• America
• Super Earth
• Pangea
• Eurasia

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Who was the scientist who proposed the theory of continental drift?

• Alfred Powell

• Harry Hess

• Alfred Wegener

• Ernest Rutherford

What is the driving force behind the movement of the tectonic plates?

• Gravity

• Convection

• Wave motion

• Seismic activity

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What is the process of convection?

• The process of hot material rising and cooler material sinking in circular patterns

• The process of hot rock solidifying and forming new crust

• The process of explaining what goes up must come down

• Strong ocean currents moving tremendous amounts of material

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Mountains on land are created along

• Transform boundaries

• Continental-Continental Convergent

• Divergent

• Oceanic-Continental Convergent

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