Plate movement is caused by _____

Convection current in the mantle

This is the driving force behind the movement of tectonic plates.

Atmospheric convection currents

This is the theory that states that all the continents started as a single massive continent and have been MOVING apart for over 200 million years and the man that proposed it.

The Continental Drift Theory, Wegner

The Tectonic Plate Theory, Darwin

Mountains are created when....

An Oceanic plate subducts under a Continental Plate

Two continental plates pull apart

Most volcanoes and earthquakes occur...

along tectonic plate boundaries

What is the correct order (starting from the surface) of Earth’s layers?

crust, mantle, outer core, inner core

crust, outer core, inner core, mantle

mantle, outer core, inner core, crust

Mountains form from ...

plates sliding past one another

plates moving away from each other

Most geologists rejected Alfred Wegener's idea of continental drift because...

Wegener could not identify the force that moved the continents

it did not agree with their current theory

Wegener was interested in what Earth was like millions of years ago

Wegener used several different types of evidence to support his hypothesis

Observe this diagram of a plate boundary. One statement BEST describes what is happening. It is that

the denser ceanic crust is subducting under the less dense oceanic crust

the tectonic plates are moving away from each other.

Year 9 Plate tectonics revision

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

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Name this boundary

Convergent

Divergent

Transform

Sergent

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2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

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Name the boundary

convergent

transform

divergent

sergent

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3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

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

submarine zone

divergence zone

subduction zone

lower zone

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Plates moving apart would be...

convergent

divergent

transform

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5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Which layer of the Earth is the thickest and is made of molten rock?

Outer Core

Inner Core

Crust

Mantle

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Tectonic plates that are coming together or colliding?

Convergent

Divergent

Transform

Sedergent

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

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Tectonic plates that are spreading or pulling apart.

Convergent

divergent

transform

merging

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Year 9 Plate tectonics revision

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Name this boundary

Name the boundary

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

Plates moving apart would be...

Which layer of the Earth is the thickest and is made of molten rock?

Tectonic plates that are coming together or colliding?

Tectonic plates that are spreading or pulling apart.

Tectonic plates that are sliding past each other.

What causes the tectonic plates to move?

Plate movement is caused by _____

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