Earth's Dynamic Surface

What do you call melted rock below Earth's surface? 

• subduction
• molten
• magma
• lava

Mid-ocean ridges are formed along lines where two plates _______ under the water.

• converge
• come together
• slide
• diverge

What occurs when water or wind slows down and drops the materials it has been carrying?

• Erosion
• deposition
• weathering
• compacting

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Plates of the lithosphere float on the 

• crust
• core
• asthenosphere
• atmosphere

Most volcanoes occur at which type of plate boundary?

• divergent
• convergent with subduction
• transform
• convergent without subduction

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Seafloor spreading occurs because...

• new material is being added to the asthenosphere
• earthquakes break apart the ocean floor
• sediments accumulate at the area of spreading
• molten material beneath Earth's crust rises to the surface

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The process that acts on rock to change its form and break it into smaller pieces is called___

• sediment
• mid-ocean ridge
• glacier
• weathering

Active volcanoes are most likely to form at ____

• transform boundaries
• divergent boundaries
• the center of continents
• convergent oceanic-continental boundaries

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If you want to avoid earthquakes, where would be the best place to live?

• West coast
• the largest island in Hawaii
• southern Alaska
• The Great Lakes region

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Which of the following forms when Earth's crust folds and crumples

• mountains
• ocean trench
• mid-ocean ridge
• subduction zone

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