Bc Plate Tectonics Topographic

Mountains form from....

• Tectonic plates sliding past one another
• Collision of tectonic plates
• Tectonic plates moving away from each other
• Tectonic plates disappearing

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What was the name given to all the continents when they were joined as one super continent?

• Supreme Continent
• Eurasia
• Plate tectonics
• Pangea

Plate movement is caused by _____

• The rotation of the Earth
• Ocean tides
• Convection currents in the mantle
• The moon's gravity

Which of the following is the softer moving area of the mantle that contains convection current?

• Asthenosphere
• Lithosphere
• Outer core
• Oceanic crust

This image represents this type of boundary

• Divergent
• Transform
• Convergent
• Subduction

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

• Mantle convection currents
• Oceanic convection currents
• Atmospheric convection currents
• Solar convection currents

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At a divergent boundary, tectonic plates move in what way? 

• Tectonic plates move towards each other
• Tectonic plates slide past each other
• Tectonic plates move up and down
• Tectonic plates move away from each other

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 A land feature that is produced at a convergent boundary is

• a valley
• an ocean
• a canyon
• a volcano

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What is a tectonic plate?

• A piece of the Earth's crust
• A piece of Earth's mantle
• A piece of Earth's core
• A piece of Earth's Moon

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Which type of plate boundary would cause mountains to form

• Transform
• Convergent
• Divergent
• Reform

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