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Plate Tectonics, Continental Drift, Plate Boundaries
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1
Heated rock rises (less dense) and cool rock sinks (more dense) is describing...?
Ridge Push
Convection
Radiation
Concentration
2
At which boundary will you find rift valleys?
Divergent
Convergent
Transform
3
At which type of boundary are mid-ocean ridges created?
Divergent
Convergent
Transform
4
The boundary shown below can be best classified as -
A transform boundary
A divergent boundary
A subduction zone
5
What causes the tectonic plates to constantly be in motion?
Convection Currents in the Mantle
Gravity
Earth's Rotation
6
What type of boundary is show below?
Divergent
Convergent
Transform
7
What type of boundary is shown below?
Transform
Convergent
Divergent
8
What was the name given to the landmass when all the continents were joined?
Gondwanaland
Laurasia
Ring of Fire
Pangea
9
What is the product of plate movement at transform boundaries?
Fault Lines & Earthquakes
Fault Lines & Trenches
Mid-Ocean Ridges & Rift Valleys
Mountains & Trenches
10
What theory states that continents were once joined together but have moved apart over time?
Cell Theory
Tectonic Closure
Continental Drift
Continental Mass
11
What landform will most likely be created by the boundary shown below?
Fault Line
Mid-Ocean Ridge
Rift Valley
Trench
12
What type of landforms are associated with divergent boundaries?
Volcanoes & Trenches
Faults & Earthquakes
Mid-Ocean Ridges & Rift Valleys
Mountains & Trenches
13
What earth phenomena occurs when the plates move past each other?
Volcanic Eruption
Mid-ocean ridge
Earthquake
Full moon
14
Which feature is NOT found at convergent boundaries?
Trenches
Rift Valleys
Folded Mountains
Volcanoes
15
Which type of boundary creates volcanoes, mountains, and trenches?
Convergent
Transform
Divergent
16
Which piece of evidence was NOT used by Wegener to support his theory of Continental Drift?
Rock Formations
Glacial Evidence
Magnetic Poles on the Seafloor
Fossils
17
What type of boundary has the plates slide past each other?
Transform
Divergent
Convergent
18
The process of one tectonic plate moving under another is called...
Recyclination
Subduction
Submerssion
Convection
19
What are extremely deep areas of the oceans called?
Mid-Ocean ridges
Fault Lines
Rift Valleys
Trenches
20
What type of landforms are created at a continental-continental convergent boundary?
Mountains
Volcanoes
Trenches
Island Arcs
