TECTONIC PLATE MOVEMENTS

What is the best definition for TECTONIC PLATES?

• Tectonic plates are the different types of rocks found on the Earth's surface.
• Tectonic plates are layers of water found in oceans.
• Tectonic plates are small fragments of the Earth's atmosphere.
• Tectonic plates are large sections of the Earth's crust that move and interact with one another.

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What are the three types of TECTONIC PLATE movements?

• Subduction, Compression, Expansion
• Divergent, Subduction, Lateral Slipping

• Erosion, Sedimentation, Uplift
• Folding, Faulting, Weathering

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What TECTONIC PLACE movement pulls away in opposite directions?

• Divergent

• Lateral Slipping

• Subduction

• Pangeae

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What TECTONIC PLACE movement happens when two plates move against each other in opposite directions?

• Subduction

• Lateral Slipping

• Divergent

• Convergent

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What TECTONIC PLATE movement happens when two plates crash into each other?

• Convergent

• Subduction

• Slipping Lateral

• Divergent

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Divergent plate movements often happen on the ______ _______ .

• rainforest trail

• transform faults
• continental rifts
• oceanic crust

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Subduction plate movements can be either ___________ or oceanic.

• mantle
• lithospheric
• tectonic
• continental

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When lateral slipping plate movements suddenly break apart, it creates an earthquakes and _____________ .

• tsunamis
• floods
• landslides
• volcanoes

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What happens when two CONTINENTAL plates collide into each other?

• Mountain ranges are formed

• Volcanoes erupt and tsunamis occur.
• The plates slide past each other without any effect.
• Hurricanes occur

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What is flowing beneath the Earth's solid surface?

• Magma and molten rock
• Solid minerals and metals
• Air and gases
• Water and ice

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