Plate Tectonics

What are tectonic plates?

• Extra large ceramic plates

• Sections of the Earth's crust that are divided up, their margins create volcanoes and earthquakes

• The Earth's crust

• The top of the earth

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Which of these features is NOT found at a constructive plate margin?

• Subduction Zone

• Rising Magma

• Plates moving apart

• Volcanoes

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What features are found at a destructive plate boundary? Can be more than 1 answer

• Subduction Zone

• Fold Mountains

• Volcanoes

• Magma Sinks

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Which of these is an example of a Conservative plate boundary?

• Mid Atlantic Ridge

• Himalayas Mountain Range

• The Andes Mountain Range

• San Andreas Fault

Label the correct order of the interior sections of the Earth

What are Convection Currents?

• The movement of heat through the Mantle

• The movement of heat through the Outer Core

• The movement of heat through the Crust

• The movement of heat through the Interior of the Earth

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Subduction is ....

• The process where oceanic crust is pulled beneath continental crust

• Where continental crust is bent and mountains are formed

• When a volcano is formed by rising magma

• They process which forms earthquakes

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In which type of plate boundary do the tectonic plates move apart?

• conservative

• constructive

• destructive

Where is the Ring of Fire?

• Around the Atlantic Ocean

• Around the Pacific Ocean

• Around the Mediterranean Sea

• Around the Himalayan Mountains

Breaks in the crust called __________ form where plates meet.

• mountains

• rift valleys

• faults

• trenches

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