Plate Tectonics Vocabulary
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
When two plates collide and one plate slips below the other and down into the mantle.
Subduction
Erosion
Deposition
Convection
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The boundary between two plates that collide with one another.
Divergent Plate Boundary
Convergent Plate Boundary
Transform Plate Boundary
Subversive Plate Boundary
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A wide volcano with gentle slopes that has been formed by quiet, runny lava flows.
Composite Volcano
Shield Volcano
Fissure Volcano
Cinder-Cone Volcano
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The hot, plastic-like layer of Earth, made of magma.
Inner Core
Mantle
Crust
Outer Core
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Mountains that are formed by the folding up of rock layers due to the collision of two plates
Folded Mountains
Dome Mountains
Fault-Block Mountains
Volcanic Mountains
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The place in the rocks where pressure releases and an earthquake begins.
Fault
Epicenter
Seismic Waves
Focus
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The hot, liquid layer of Earth, made of iron and nickel.
Inner Core
Mantle
Crust
Outer Core
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