Plate Tectonics Review For Quiz

Tectonic plates move due to

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What is the name of the area between two diverging plates? (Yellow Arrow)

• rift valley

• transform boundary

• ocean trench

• subduction zone

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What kind of boundary is this?

• Transform Boundary

• Divergent Boundary

• Convergent Boundary

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Which type of boundary is characterized by plates sliding past each other?

• Transform Boundary

• Divergent Boundary

• Convergent Boundary

The lithosphere (crust) is broken into sections called

• plates

• faults

• ridges

• trenches

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What process creates new crust from magma?

• sea-floor spreading
• subduction
• weathering
• erosion

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Which type of boundary forms a mid-ocean ridge?

• transform

• divergent

• convergent

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What is true of tectonics plates?

• They are constantly moving

• Earthquakes cause them to move

• They don't move for centuries at a time

• There are fewer & fewer of them

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What structure is the arrow pointing to?

• Subduction zone

• Stratovolcano

• Mid-ocean ridge

• Pangea

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What geologic process formed the Himalayas?

• two continental plates converging

• an earthquake in a subduction zone

• a tectonic plate moving over a hot spot

• movement at a transform fault boundary

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