Plate Tectonics Quiz

What are the three types of plate boundaries?

• Divergent boundaries, convergent boundaries, and transform boundaries

• Subduction boundaries, collision boundaries, and sliding boundaries

• Tectonic boundaries, fault boundaries, and rift boundaries

• Oceanic boundaries, continental boundaries, and island boundaries

Which type of crust is denser; continental crust or oceanic crust?

• Continental crust

• Oceanic Crust

The Earth's surface being worn away and and bits of rock and soil being carried away and deposited elsewhere is called:

• Weathering

• Erosion

• Sedimentation

• Volcanoes

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The name for plates pushing against each other causing mountains to form is called:

• Mountain Boundaries

• Transforming Boundaries

• Divergent Boundaries

• Convergent Boundaries

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The boundary where two tectonic plates are moving away from each other forming new crust is called:

• Divergent Boundary

• Convergent Boundary

• Plate Tectonics

• Soil Erosion

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How does temperature change as you go from the crust down to the core?

• it gets colder

• it gets hotter

What is true of plate tectonics?

• they don't move for centuries at a time

• they are always moving

• there are fewer and fewer of them

• they don't move at all

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Which layer of Earth is made of the most solid rock?

• inner core
• outer core
• mantle
• crust

Water carrying sediment down a hill is an example of...

• weathering

• erosion

• deposition

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Water freezing inside a rock and breaking it into smaller sediment is an example of...

• weathering

• erosion

• deposition

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