Dynamic Planet Plate Tectonics

The rigid outer layer of Earth that is broken into large slowly moving pieces.

• Plate Tectonics
• Bowl Tectonics
• Sea-floor Spreading
• Alfred Wegener

Which layer of the Earth is divided into tectonic plates?

• Core
• Mantle
• Lithosphere
• Hydrosphere

True or False? Tectonic plates can move.

• True
• False

Tectonic Plates can include

• only atmosphere
• only oceanic crust
• only continental crust
• oceanic and continental crust

Earthquakes and volcanoes are most likely found in which locations?

• At tectonic plate boundaries
• in oceans
• in the middle of continents
• in the middle of plates

All of the following can happen when plates move except. 

• hurricanes
• volcanoes erupt
• mountains form
• earthquakes to occur

True or false. Scientists can predict earthquakes.

• true
• false

True or false. A volcano is a type of mountain.

• true
• false

True or false. A mountain is made of magma, melted rocks.

• true
• false

A break in earth's crust is called ____________.

• fault
• lava
• valley
• ridge