Geoscience Processes

Tectonic Plate Movement is considered:

• a fast process

• a slow process

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What is this image showing?

• Sinkhole

• Cave Formation

• Volcano

• Landslide

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What is true of tectonic plates?

• They are constantly moving

• Earthquakes cause them to move

• They don't move for centuries at a time

• There are fewer and fewer of them

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Tectonic plates move due to ________.

• the moon

• tsunamis

• heated currents deep within Earth

• the formation of mountains over time

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What plate boundary is shown here

• divergent boundary

• convergent boundary

• transform boundary

What plate boundary is shown here

• divergent boundary

• convergent boundary

• transform boundary

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What plate boundary is shown here

• divergent boundary

• convergent boundary

• transform boundary

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Sea-floor spreading explains how.....

• new crust is created at a divergent boundary

• volcanoes are formed on continents

• deep sea trenches are formed

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What is the name of the supercontinent that formed from about 200-100  million years ago?

• Pangaea
• Laurasia

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Who first proposed the theory of continental drift'?

• Galileo
• Wegener
• Hess

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