Unit 2: Plate Tectonics Review Quiz

What layer are tectonic plates moving on?

• asthenosphere

• lithosphere

• mantle

• crust

What is the difference between oceanic and continental crust?

• Continental is less dense than oceanic crust

• Continental is more dense than oceanic crust

• Oceanic crust is the same as continental crust

• Oceanic crust causes subduction zones and oceanic does not

When another plate is pulled under another, and begins to melt this is called

• subduction

• sublimation

• convergence

• convection current

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Which type of boundary produces volcanoes as the crust splits apart?

• divergent

• convergent

• transform

What type of boundaries produce earthquakes only and nothing else?

• transform

• convergent

• divergent

What are the three types of boundaries? (Choose 3)

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

• earthquake

• volcano

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What type of boundary produces mountains?

• continent-continent

• ocean-ocean

• continent-ocean

Which type(s) of boundaries produce volcanoes? (Check all that apply)

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

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Why do tectonic plates move?

• convection currents

• plate tectonics

• continental drift

• ocean currents

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What is Pangaea?

• the supercontinent made of all the current continents together

• how plate tectonics works

• the convections currents that cause continental drift

• it describes how the continents on Earth currently look

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