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Plate Tectonics and Sea Floor Spreading review
Plate Tectonics and Sea Floor Spreading review
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Transform boundaries cause:
Hurricanes
Subduction Zone
Mountains
Earthquakes
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True or False: Convection Currents contribute to plate movement
True
False
3
What type of evidence did scientists use to prove the Theory of Plate Tectonics?
Fossils
Waves
Weather
Glacier evidence
4
Consists of the crust and part of the mantle.
convection current
continental drift
Lithosphere
plate tectonics
5
Convergent boundaries can create
Volcanoes
tornadoes
Hurricanes
Mountains
6
What type of boundary occurs when two plates slide past each other?
divergent
subduction
Convergent
transform
7
The mountain range in the middle of the Pacific ocean is called
Ring-of Fire
Sediment
Seafloor spreading
Mid-atlantic ridge
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Where would the oldest rock be found?
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N
M
L
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What type of boundary occurs when two plates move away from each other?
convergent
subduction
transform
divergent
10
How is it possible for new crust to be formed without increasing the surface area of the Earth?
New crust breaks more easily than old crust
New crust is underwater where it sinks
Crust is destroyed at the same time it is created
11
Which layer of the Earth is considered to be the thinnest?
Crust
Outter Core
Inner Core
Mantle
12
The process in which a denser plate is pushed beneath a less dense plate
subduction
divergent boundaries
lithosphere
trenches
13
During sea-floor spreading, molten material rises up from the mantle...
deep ocean trenches
at north and south poles
at the mid ocean ridges
along the continents
14
What type of boundary occurs when two plates collide?
Transform
Convergent
Divergent
Subduction
15
Which of the following causes the Earth's tectonic plates to move?
Convection currents in the mantle
Faults in Mountain Ranges
Magnetic Pole Reversal
Energy from the Sun
16
Which of the following is NOT evidence to support the Theory of Plate Tectonics?
Fossils
Mountains
Sand Erosion
Glaciers
17
What is the super continent called?
Pangaea
United States
Panthalassa
Continental Drift
18
What is the ring-shaped belt of volcano and earthquake activity in the Pacific Ocean called?
Ring of Fire
Pangaea
transform boundary
epicenter
