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Plate tectonics
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1
Subduction of ocean plates can result in all of the following EXCEPT-
Volcanoes
Island chains
Rift valleys
Tsunamis
2
At this type of plate boundary, two plates are sliding past each other.
Divergent
Transform
Teutonic
Convergent
3
Mount Everest is getting a little taller every year because of this type of plate interaction.
Transform
Collision
Divergent
Subduction
4
The granite that makes up the continents is denser than the basalt that makes up the oceans.
False
True
5
At this type of plate boundary, the plates are pushing toward each other.
Divergent
Convergent
Transform
Teutonic
6
This man's ideas became the basis for the theory of plate tectonics
Alan Sheppard
Alfred Wegener
Antonin Scalia
Albert Einstein
7
Convection currents in this layer of the Earth move the tectonic plates.
Upper Crust
Lithosphere
Asthenosphere
Outer core
8
This word is Greek for "all lands"
Pangaea
Tectonics
Glossopteris
Pangolin