Plate Tectonics Short Answer

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

The San Andrea's Fault in California is caused by which two plate boundaries?

• African and Asian
• African and European
• North American and South American
• Pacific and North American

True or False? Tectonic plates can move.

• True
• False

What is the name of the plate boundary that pulls apart?

• Divergent
• Convergent
• Transform
• Tug Of War

What is the name of the plate boundary that slides past each other?

• Divergent
• Convergent
• Transform
• Mr. C the Slide Man

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

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• Convergent boundary
• Transform Boundary
• Divergent Boundary

Which of the following is NOT a tectonic boundary?

• Convergent
• Divergent
• Sedergent
• Transform