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Plate Tectonics, Volcanoes, and Earthquakes
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Areas where plates move away from each other, forming mid oceanic ridges or rift valleys.
Transform Plate Boundaries
Convergent Plate Boundaries
Divergent Plate Boundaries
2
What is number 2
Ocean Crust
Continental Crust
Asthenosphere
Lithosphere
3
What is number 4
Ocean Crust
Asthenosphere
Lithosphere
Continent Crust
4
A __________ boundary occurs when two tectonic plates collide into each other.
Transform
Convergent
Divergent
5
What is number 7
Ocean Crust
Continental Crust
Lithosphere
Asthenosphere
6
Movements within Earth's mantle that causes tectonic plates move are called _____
Conduction Currents
Radiation Currents
Convection Currents
Reservation Currents
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What is number five?
Crust
Outer Core
Inner Core
Mantle
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__________ can be created or grow wider where plates diverge or pull apart.
Mountains
Oceans
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What does this picture show
Seafloor Spreading
Pangea
Continental Drift
Tectonic plates
10
Underwater mountain ranges where the crust is spreading apart creating new ocean floor.
Trench
Ocean Ridge
11
What is Number 3
Mantle
Inner Core
Crust
Outer Core
12
Areas where plates move toward each other and collide, causing uplift.
Convergent Plate Boundaries
Divergent Plate Boundaries
Transform Plate Boundaries
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The___________ is an example of a divergent boundary.
Marianas Trench
Mid Atlantic Ridge
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A deep depression of the sea floor caused by the subduction of one plate under another.
Volcano
Trench
Rift Valley
Mid Ocean Ridge
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When plates collide the plate that is __________ will subduct (go beneath the other).
Less Dense
More Dense
16
Molten Rock inside the earth
Magma
Lava
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When two continental plates collide large __________ will usually form.
Mountains
Trenches
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When oceanic crust melts it can result in the formation of a __________.
Earthquake
Volcano
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The region of the earth made up of the crust and upper mantle
Lithosphere
Asthenosphere
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When oceanic plates collide, one of those plates will __________ (go beneath the other).
Subtract
Subsume
Sublimate
Subduct
21
More than half of the world's active volcanoes above sea level encircling the Pacific Ocean.
Ring of Truth
Ring of Death
Ring of Fire
Ring of Volcanoes
22
What is Number 8
Inner Core
Crust
Mantle
Outer Core
23
Convergent boundaries can form ________________.
Ocean Trenches
Mountain Ranges
24
Which scientist is credited for first proposing Plate Tectonics Theory?
Harry Hess
Alfred Wegener
Archibald MacDuff
Albert Einstein
25
Which type of Crust is Denser
Oceanic
Continental
26
The __________ mountains formed from the collision of the Indian plate and the Eurasian plate.
Alps
Andes
Himalayan
Rockies
27
A __________ boundary occurs when two tectonic plates slide past each other.
Transform
Convergent
Divergent
28
How many layers make up the Earth
3
2
4
1
29
At a __________ plate boundary new crust is created
Transform
Divergent
Convergent
30
What is number 6
Lithosphere
Ocean crust
Continent Crust
Asthenosphere
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Earthquakes often occur at __________ lines.
Goal
Fault
Tectonic
Transform
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The San Andreas Fault in California is a __________ plate boundary.
Divergent
Transform
Convergent
