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The Subduction zone is created by transform boundaries.
False
True
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where does seafloor spreading occur?
at converge plates
on seamounts
at divergent plate
near the ocean surface
3
What might occur at a transform boundary?
a mountain
a mid-ocean ridge
a trench
an earthquake
4
Subduction occurs at what type of boundary?
transform
divergent
convergent
fault
5
What forms when 2 oceanic plates diverge?
subduction zone
volcano
valley
mid-ocean ridge
6
What is sea floor spreading
Cooking withe sea plants
the formation of oceanic crust at mid-ocean ridges and shift
Volcanic creations
Sea plant flavored peanut butter
7
What is a fault zone?
Along plate boundaries where few faults are.
Along plate boundaries where large number of faults are.
Away from plate boundaries.
8
What is true of plate tectonics?
They are constantly moving
They are caused mainly by human impacts on climate.
They are caused by earthquakes
They are stationary
9
What is a "Rift Valley?"
A Valley where tectonic plates create a huge, growing hole in the ground
A Valley where Mr. Naus hunts for chicken
A Valley where the end portal is
A Valley where spreading apart occurs in the Earth
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How many types of boundaries are there
4
2
3
44
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What is a transform boundary?
Two plates that slide past each other
Two plates combine together to create another plate
Two plates that turn into something else
A plate that rises or sinks on its own
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What is the plate boundary where plates are coming together?
Transform fault
Convergent
Continental
Divergent
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When 2 continental plates converge, what type of landform is most likely formed?
mid-ocean ridge
Volcanic mountain
trench
Folded mountain
14
What is the biggest tectonic plate
North American plate
Pacific Plate
Scotia Plate
Eurasian Plate
15
What is a long chain of underwater mountains where new sea floor is created?
Deep Ocean Trenches
Mid Ocean Ridges
Volcanic Island Arc
Continental Collisions
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In which Earth layer are most convection currents that cause seafloor spreading located?
Asthenosphere
Outer Core
Inner Core
Crust
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What is Continental drift?
Continental drift is the movement of the Earth's continents
IT meant that the Continents would soon drift into space
It is the explanation of Pangaea
IDK
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What is the continental drift?
Explains how Pangaea was created
wind pushing a continent
observation of how continents were once connected
how one continent floats on another
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What is a real world example of a transform boundary?
San Andreas Fault
Hawaii
Mid Atlantic Ridge
Andes Mountains
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What are 2 types of lithosphere?
land and water
oceanic and continental
crust and mantle
crust and core
21
Transform boundaries lithosphere is neither created nor destroyed.
False
True
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What is subduction?
One plate does not move but the second plate moves.
Both plates sink lower.
One plate moves underneath another plate.
23
The intensity of an earthquake is measured what scale ?
seismograph
Roger
Richter
Rokker
24
What type of plate boundary is this?
Transform
Convergent
Divergent
Subduction
25
Which Layer of the Earth is the thinnest?
Crust
Outer Core
Mantle
26
What is subduction?
a mad squirrel
change in the movement of the crust
movement of the edge of a plate
sideways and downward movement of the edge of a plate
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What is a divergent boundary
when the plates separate
when the plates pass each other
when the plates undergo tensional stress
when the plates collide
28
What plate boundary produces mountains?
strike skip
transform
divergent
convergent
29
What is NOT evidence of plate tectonics?
Mountain ranges across oceans made of the same type of rock.
Lands fits together like a puzzle
Scars on rocks due to glaciers
Whales sinking to the bottom when they die
30
Which layer of Earth does convection currents that cause tectonic plate motion occur in?
inner core
crust
mantle
outer core
31
What happens at transform boundaries?
The rocks on both sides of the fault are pushed together.
The rocks on both sides of the fault are sheared (broken).
The rocks on both sides of the fault are pulled apart.
32
What is the inner and outer core made of
Gold and titanium
Iron and nickel
Gold and Nickle
Rock....ju-Just Rocks
33
What kind of a boundary is pictured?
transform plate boundary
divergent plate boundary
convergent plate boundary
34
What is the lithosphere
The mood of a workplace
The envelope of gases enclosing the earth or another planet
A sphere-like invention made for scientific study
the outer part of the earth; the crust and upper mantle.
35
What is "The Ring of Fire?"
A belt of volcanoes that stretches around the Pacific Ocean
A glowing ring of fire, duh
A belt of volcanoes that stretches around the Atlantic Ocean
A belt of volcanoes that stretches around the Indian Ocean
36
Which layer of the earth contains the asthenosphere?
Mantle
Crust
Inner Core
Outer Core
37
What happens to the crust at a transform boundary?
The plates collide
The plates slide past each other in opposite directions
The plates undergo compression
The plates slide past each other
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What is a convergent boundary?
plates get corgis as pets
squirrels gather nuts and store them in plates
plates separate
plates come together
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What features are created at a convergent plate boundary?
volcanoes
all of the above
trenchs
mountain ranges
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What is a tectonic plate?
Large pieces of the mantle
Large pieces of the Earth's crust
The areas of the Earth's surface that have water
The molten rock that moves in the mantle
41
A _______mountain is created at an Oceanic-Oceanic convergent plate boundary.
B: Volcano
where people who spoil Endgame live (Hint: Jack Lang)
A: Volcanic
Both A and B
42
what layer of the earth is composed of plate tectonics?
outer core
mantle
inner core
crust
43
What is created when stress builds up and breaks rock?
Anticline
Syncline
Fault
Crack
44
An example of a transform plate movement is
All of the Above
New Zealand's Alpine Fault
Turkey North Anatolian Fault
California's San Andreas Fault
45
What is the basic concept of Plate Tectonics ?
The plates of the Earth are constantly moving.
The continents were once all combined into one continent know as pangea
The earth is constantly rotates on its axis every 24 hours
The earth has 4 main layers the crust, mantle, inner core, and outer core
46
Obduction is is the over-thrusting of continental crust by oceanic crust or mantle rocks at a convergent plate boundary.
False
True
47
What boundary created the great rift valley?
Divergent
Subduction
Convergent
Transform
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When a continental plate and an oceanic plate converge (collide) - what is the result?
The oceanic plate sinks under the continental plate
The continental plate sinks under the oceanic plate
mountains are created
they are both given a ticket
49
At a transform boundary (fault) land is neither __________ or __________, only moved.
flattened of lifted
created or destroyed
50
Which is NOT evidence that supports continental drift?
Climate
Landforms
Fossils
Convection Currents
51
What is an example of a divergent boundary?
Rift vally
Alps
Japan
Earthquakes
52
What is created in sea-floor spreading?
new oceanic crust
a deep-ocean trench
a rift valley
new continental crust
53
When 2 continental plates diverge it creates:
a mid ocean ridge
a fault
a rift valley
a mountain
54
Which Layer of the Earth is the Thickest?
Mantle
Crust
Outer Core
55
Which statement supports the theory of continental drift?
Similar fossils were found on different continents
Moby Dick dragged the continents apart
The wind blew the continents apart
Different fossils were found on different continents
56
When two oceanic plates converge, the one that subducts is the one that:
reaches the boundary first
is denser
is moving slower
is moving faster
57
In what layer does convection occur?
Lower mantle
Crust
upper mantle
outer core
58
Where is the youngest rock of the seafloor in the diagram
closest to the mid-ocean ridge
closest to the deep ocean trench
halfway between ridge and trench
on the continents
59
Which is not a type of boundary?
Divergent
Transform
Convergent
Indigent
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what is a earthquake?
a storm
sudden and violent shaking of the ground causing destruction
an giant wave
a big wind causing lots of destruction
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What is the asthenosphere
the upper layer of the mantle, that is below the Lithosphere
The opposite of a lithosphere
Convection currents
An underground layer
