Plates

Which layer of Earth flows slowly and causes the crust to move?

• Crust

• Mantle

• Inner Core

• Outer core

What is the correct order (starting from the surface) of Earth’s layers?

• crust, outer core, inner core, mantle

• mantle, outer core, inner core, crust

• crust, mantle, outer core, inner core

• outer core, inner core, crust, mantle

What is an earthquake?

• When the earth causes an upward thrust in the epicenter.
• When the earth moves up and down along the ocean floor.
• When tectonic plates slide against each other causing the earth to move. 

• None of the above

Subduction means.....

• one plate goes under another plate

• two plates slide past each other

• two plate collide and form folded mountains

An opening on the Earth's crust through which hot molten rock flows out from deep inside the Earth.

• Volcano

• Fault line

• Fold

• Crater

The diagram shows what can occur when two continental plates collide.Which characteristic of the Indian Plate explains why it moves under the Eurasian Plate?

• It is larger.
• It is denser.
• It is molten.
• It is younger.

What do we call an area where more then two plates interact in different ways

• plate boundary zones

• hot spots

• convergent boundaries

• subduction

What type of boundary occurs when two plates slide past each other?

• divergent
• transform
• lateral
• convergent

A fault forms at a _________ boundary.

• transform
• divergent
• horizontal
• convergent

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

• plate tectonics
• continental drift
• convection
• divergence