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When Earth's plates rub or scrape against one another, the release of energy causes ...

• a volcano
• an earthquake
• a tornado
• continental drift

What type of plate boundary is pictured

• Destructive

• Constructive

• tranform
• tension

Crustal plates that pull apart from one another MOST likely form

• volcanic island arcs

• strike-slip faults

• oceanic trenches

• rift zones

Which of these tectonic plate boundaries is most likely to form a volcano.

• a continental plate colliding with a continental plate

• an oceanic plate sliding past a continental plate

• a continental plate sliding past a continental plate

• an oceanic plate colliding into a continental plate

What causes the tectonic plates to continually to move?

• Convection currents

• Volcanic and seismic activity

• Strong winds and storms

• Rotation of the solid core

What forms at a divergent boundary between two oceanic plates?

• rift valley
• mountain
• mid-ocean ridge
• trench

Which type of crust is more dense?

• oceanic
• continental
• divergent
• pizza

What forms at a convergent boundary between a continental plate and an oceanic plate?

• volcanoes
• rift valleys
• faults
• mid-ocean ridges

What is the process in which hot molten rock rises, then cools and sinks back to the core?

• plate tectonics
• continental drift
• convection
• divergence

A trench forms at a _________ boundary.

• convergent
• divergent
• transform
• vertical