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Plate boundary where crustal plates SLIDE past each other

• Transistor
• Transform
• Earthquake slide

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What causes an earthquake?

• the earth's mantle moves
• tectonic plates vibrate
• tectonic plates move apart
• tectonic plates rub against each other

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Which of the following is where one plate slides under another plate?

• submarine zone
• divergence zone
• subduction zone
• lower zone

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Rock layers undergo stress when they are squeezed at convergent boundaries. This stress is called:

• compression
• combining

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What type of event will occur at this boundary?

• Earthquake
• Volcano Eruption
• Tornado
• Mountain Building

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What type of event will occur at this boundary?

• Earthquake

• Volcano Eruption

• Tornado

• Mountain Building

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Where would the oldest rock be found?

• L
• M
• N
• O

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Active volcanoes are most abundant along the

• edges of tectonic plates

• equatorial ocean floor

• 23.5^oN and 23.5^oS parallels of latitude

• eastern coastlines of continents

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What happens when two continental plate collide?

• One plate will go under and subducts.

• Both two plates will go downward.

• Neither the plates will be subducted and mountains will form.

• Plates will melt later.

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What are the two types of crust

• continental and oceanic
• ocean and upper
• lower and upper
• pizza and subway

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