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Plate Boundaries, Tectonic Plates, and Natural Disasters
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What land form is created at a convergent boundary?
Mountains
Faults
Rift valley
Mid ocean ridges
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What land form is formed at a divergent boundary
earthquakes
Mountains
faults
Mid ocean ridges
3
What is the process of oceanic crust colliding with continental crust and falling under it?
Subduction
Divergent
Transform
Convergent
4
What was one of Wegeners supporting ideas for the continental drift theory.
The new sea floor between the continents
The mountain ranges in each continent
South America and Africa fit like puzzle pieces.
The volcanoes formed in the continents
5
What is a depression in the sea floor which is a result of subduction
Sea floor spreading
Rift valley
Trench
Tectonic plates
6
What was Alfred Wegener's theory
about the continents spreading apart
called?
Continental Drift
Sea Floor Spreading
Plate Tectonics Theory
Pangea
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What is the Liquid Layer of the Earth called?
Plate Tectonics
Inner Core
Outer Core
Lithosphere
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who devolved the theory of sea floor spreading
Harry Hess
Alfred Wegener
Albert Einstien
Thomas Edison
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What Boundary does this image represent?
Sliding Past
Transform
Divergent
Convergent
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What adds more crust to the sea floor
Trenches
Sea floor spreading
Convection currents
Tectonic plates
11
What land form is created from a Transform Boundary?
Faults
Mountain Ranges
Earthquakes
Mid-Ocean-Ridges
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What is a real world example of a convergent boundary?
Alpine Fault
Himalayas
Mid-Atlantic-Ridge
San Andreas Fault
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What does the Continental drift Theory explain?
The Plate boundaries
How the continents moved
How oceans were expanded
The different layers of earth
