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Two blocks of rock slide horizontally past each other in opposite directions. This happens at transform plate boundaries, such as in southern California. What is pictured here?

• A fault

• A canyon

• A sliding rock

• A river

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Where might you find a fault like this?

• Where two plates are coming togther

• Where two plates are moving apart

• Where two plates are sliding past each other

• At a subduction zone

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Two plates slide past each other at what boundary?

• Covergent

• Divergent

• Transform

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The process where oceanic crust slides under another plate and is melted is:

• seafloor spreading

• subduction

• continental drift

• recycling

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What two features occur near every subduction zone?

• Volcanoes and Trenches

• Rift Valleys and Mid Ocean Ridges

• Volcanoes and Rift Valleys

• Mid Ocean Ridges and Trenches

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A divergent boundary in the ocean creates what feature?

• Mid Ocean Ridge

• Rift Valley

• Deep Ocean Trench

• Subduction Zone

When two continental plates converge (collide) what type of crustal feature is formed?

• Mid Ocean Ridge

• Subduction Zone

• Rift Valley

• Mountains

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The process that occurs at a divergent oceanic boundary that creates new crust (sea floor) is called?

• Subduction

• Seafloor Spreading

• Continental Drift

• Volcanism

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What process is happening in the upper mantle that helps move the lithospheric plates'?

• Convection

• Subduction

• Seafloor Spreading

• Earthquakes

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What are the four main 'agents' of erosion? These four things cause most of the erosion on Earth.

• wind, water, fire and gravity

• wind, fire, ice and gravity

• water, wind, ice and gravity

• water, wind, air and gravity

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