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WorksheetsPlate Tectonics
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
This layer of the earth is 200km thick beneath the crust and contains hotter softer rock that flows like lava
Asthenosphere
Lithosphere
Inner Core
Mantle
When to continental plates collide this process is called
Convergent Subduction
Divergent Collision
Convergent Collision
Transform Subduction
The lithosphere is one of the least dense layers of earth where life exists also known as the
crust
mantle
inner core
outer core
When to plates move apart the boundary is
convergent
transform
convergent subduction
divergent
The movement of Earth's tectonic plates is generated by
convection currents
radioactive processes
thermonuclear dynamics
electric slide
Oceanic crust sinks beneath continental crust because it is
More Dense
Weighed down by water
Weighed down by magma
Less Dense
When oceanic plates move toward a continental plate it creates a
coral zone
tectonic zone
subduction zone
collision zone
When two plates slide past each other this is known as a
convergent collision boundary
transform boundary
convergent subduction boundary
divergent boundary
The Earth's inner and outer core is mostly composed of which two metals
mercury and nickel
mercury and copper
iron and nickel
iron and alluminum
This middle layer of earth, solid rock and is where convection currents occur
Lithosphere
Outer Core
Athenosphere
Mantle
