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Plate Tectonics Vocabulary

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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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