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