*GCA_U3: Plate Boundaries 2

What is a plate boundary where both plates move away from each other?

• transform

• divergent

• convergent

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What is a plate boundary where two plates move toward each other?

• transform

• divergent

• convergent

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What is a plate boundary where two plates slip past each other moving in opposite directions?

• transform

• divergent

• convergent

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What are breaks in Earth's crust where rocks have slipped past each other?

• Ridges
• Plates
• Craters
• Faults

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Most geologists think that the movement of Earth's plates is caused by

• earthquakes

• conduction

• convection currents in the mantle

• Earth's magnetic field

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What 2 things are made at DIVERGENT Boundary?

• Mid-ocean ridge and tsunami

• Mid-ocean ridge and Rift Valley

• Trench and mid-ocean ridge

• Mountain and mid-ocean ridge

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Mountains are created when....

• two continental plates collide

• two oceanic plate pull apart

• two continental plates pull apart

• an oceanic plate subducts under a continental plate

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What kind of plate boundary is shown here?

• Divergent boundary
• Subduction zone
• Convergent boundary
• Transform boundary

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What kind of plate boundary is shown here?

• Divergent boundary
• Subduction zone
• Convergent boundary
• Transform boundary

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The San Andreas Fault in California is known as an active earthquake area. What type of boundary is it?

• Divergent boundary
• Subduction zone
• Convergent boundary
• Transform boundary

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