Earth Unit LC1 Review

Question 1

When the oceanic plate goes under the continental plate and melts in the magma

Accepted Answer

subduction

Question 2

What kind of tectonic plate boundary is this?

Accepted Answer

convergent

Question 3

What kind of tectonic plate boundary causes volcanoes?

Accepted Answer

divergent, convergent

Question 4

What kind of tectonic plate boundary is this?

Accepted Answer

transform

Question 5

The dark lines in the map represent

Accepted Answer

tectonic plate edges

Question 6

What kind of tectonic plate boundary causes mountains?

Accepted Answer

convergent

Question 7

Which 2 are evidence for continental shift?

Accepted Answer

Fossils of the same animal are found on multiple continents, The continents' edges fit together like puzzle pieces

Question 8

Tectonic plate theory states that Earth's continents are moving

Accepted Answer

slowly

Question 9

Which of the following is true about continental drift?

Accepted Answer

all the continents started close together and have since split apart

Question 10

Which layer of the Earth moves resulting the in the movement of tectonic plates?

Accepted Answer

mantle

Question 11

What kind of tectonic plate boundary causes Earth crust recycling?

Accepted Answer

convergent, divergent

Question 12

When two oceanic plates move apart and magma rises to fill the gap between them

Accepted Answer

seafloor spreading

Question 13

What kind of tectonic plate boundary causes Earthquakes?

Accepted Answer

transform

Question 14

Earth is 4.5 billion years old. There is very little crust that is older than 280 million years. Why?

Accepted Answer

The Earth's crust is recycled at ocean trenches

Question 15

What kind of tectonic plate boundary is this?

Accepted Answer

divergent

Question 16

Geologic processes change the surface of Earth

Accepted Answer

over various time periods

Questions 16