Tectonic Plates and Their Movements

What causes tectonic plates to move?

• Convection currents in the mantle

• Wind currents

• Ocean currents

• Magnetic fields

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At which type of boundary do two tectonic plates move away from each other?

• Divergent boundary

• Convergent boundary

• Transform boundary

• Subduction zone

What is formed when two continental plates collide at a convergent boundary?

• Mountains

• Volcanoes

• Ocean trenches

• Mid-ocean ridges

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The process of seafloor spreading occurs at ______ boundaries.

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The Himalayan mountains are growing taller due to the collision of the Indian Plate and the ______ Plate.

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Subduction creates ocean ______, which are the deepest parts of the ocean.

Earth's lithosphere is broken into more than 12 pieces called ______ plates.

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Mid-ocean ridges are created at what kind of plate boundary?

• convergent

• convergent with subduction

• divergent

• transform

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A mid Ocean Ridge would be caused by which plate boundary?

Click on the one you think

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Which plate boundaries move away from one another and separate?

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