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Chapter 9 Plate tectonics and boundaries
Chapter 9 Plate tectonics and boundaries
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plate tectonics vocabulary
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1
Active volcanoes are most likely to form at ____.
divergent boundaries
the center of continents
transform boundaries
convergent oceanic–continental boundaries
2
Which of the following happens at every type of plate boundary?
mountains
earthquakes
volcanoes
seafloor spreading
3
Happens when two plate collide
divergent plate boundary
plate tectonics
convergent plate boundary
transform plate boundary
4
The ____ is (are) anexample of a transform boundary
Appalachian Mountains
Himalayas
San Andreas Fault
Mid-Atlantic Ridge
5
The mountain ranges formed by divergent plates spreading underneath the ocean are
normal polarity
plate tectonics
central sea floor
mid ocean ridge
6
The cycle of heating, rising, cooling, and sinking in the Mantle is a
Continental Drift
Convection Current
Rift Valley
Plate Tectonics
7
What are formed when two continental plates collide.
Volcanoes
Rift valleys
Mountain ranges
Strike-slip faults
8
The ancient super continent composed of land that forms todays continents
north america
pangaea
fossil
continental drift
9
Happens when two plate seperate
transform plate boundary
divergent plate boundary
convergent plate boundary
plate boundary
10
The orginial hypothesis that continents are in constant motion
sea floor spreading
continental drift
Pangaea
wagner
11
Happens when two plates slide past one another
convergent plate boundary
plate tectonics
divergent plate boundary
transform plate boundary
12
What two things determine what happens or is formed at plate boundaries?
divergent or convergent boundaries
how fast the plate is moving and type of plate boundary
type of plate boundary and type of crust
how fast the plate is moving and type of crust
13
New oceanic crust forms at a mid ocean ridge as old oceanic crust moves away
continental drift
mid ocean ridge
normal polarity
sea floor spreading
14
The rigid plates composed of the crust and part of the upper mantle are called the ...
Tectonic
Pangea
Athenosphere
Lithosphere
15
The theory that earth's surface is made of plates that move
continental drift
plate tectonics
magnetic reversal
divergent plate boundary