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What is a convergent plate boundary?
It destroyes volcanoes
It makes oceans
Two plates collide into each other
It means the plates stay still
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What kind of natural disasters do plate tectonics create?
Clouds
Tsunamis
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
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Who discovered plate tectonics?
Mr. Navarre
Albert Einstein
Alfred Wegner
Bill Nye
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what happens when a oceanic plate and a continental plate collide.
They create mountains
Oceanic plates subducts
Continental plate subducts
Nothing
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What do you called this plate boundary?
Divergent
Transform
Convergent
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What is Plate Tectonics?
The theory of mountain formation
The theory of plates subducting under the mantle.
The theory of Pangaea
The theory of plates moving slowly over the mantle.
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The San Andreas fault marks what type of plate boundary?
a constructive boundary
transform boundary
a destructive boundary
a converging boundary
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About how much do plate tectonics move per year? (average)
4 feet
10 centimeters
1 inch
3 centimeters
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What type of plate interaction causes volcanoes?
convergent continental to continental
divergent oceanic boundary
transform boundaries
convergent oceanic to continental
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The process which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle at convergent plate boundary.
Convergent plate boundary
Subduction
Mid-Ocean Ridge
Transform fault boundary
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What kind of plate boundary is this?
Transform
Convergent
Slide
Divergent
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What are divergent plate boundaries?
Plates that don't move at all
Plates that move apart
Plates that move past each other
Plates that move together
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What is Tectonic Plate?
What Ever you want it to be
One of several huge pieces of Earth's crust, which is constantly moving
A Glass Plate
Is a scientific theory describing the large-scale motion of plates.
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The youngest ocean crust is at the end of the plate
True
False
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Plate movement that creates mountains, ridges, and subduction zones is ________.
Convergent
Divergent
Transform
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What type of plate boundary shown in the picture?
Divergent
Convergent
Transform
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Continental volcanic arcs are associated with what type of plate boundary?
convergent oceanic-continental boundary
transform fault boundary
convergent continental-continental boundary
convergent oceanic-oceanic boundary
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Name the plate labeled 9.
Indo-Australian Plate
African Plate
Antarctic Plate
South American Plate
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Name the plate labeled B.
Indo-Australian Plate
African Plate
Pacific Plate
Eurasian Plate
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At convergent plate boundaries where oceanic and continental crust meet _________ .
they stop right before they collide
Oceanic crust is subducted
They collide
Continental crust is subducted
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Plate Tectonics is Caused by _______?
Conduction Currents
Convection Currents
Radiation Currents
Magma Currents
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Is this a convergent plate boundary?
no
Yes
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What are transform plate boundaries?
Plates that move past each other
Plates that move together
Plates that move apart
Plates that don't move at all
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What makes up the Earth’s lithosphere?
crust and lower mantle
crust and upper mantle
oceanic and continental crust
crust and core
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What are convergent plate boundaries?
Plates that move past each other
Plates that don't move around at all
Plates that move together
Plates that move apart
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Volcanic island arcs are associated with what type of plate boundary?
convergent oceanic-oceanic boundary
convergent oceanic-continental boundary
divergent boundary
convergent continental-continental boundary
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What happens when a continental plate and an oceanic plate collide?
Each of these could happen
the oceanic plate slides under the continental plate
one slides under the other forming a trench
they squeeze the crust upward forming a mountain
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Two plates move together, causing one plate to descend into the mantle beneath the other plate.
convergent boundary
transform fault boundary
divergent boundary
transitional boundary
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Which layer of the Earth is responsible for plate tectonic movement?
outer core
asthenosphere
mantle
inner core
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Which among the statements best describe the theory of plate tectonics ...
the asthenosphere is divided into plates
the asthenosphere moves over the lithosphere
the lithosphere is divided into plates
the asthenosphere is strong and rigid
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The theory of plate tectonics helps scientists explain ...
how ocean currents move over Earth's surface
why hurricanes occur
Why earth's core is less dense than the mantle
how earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur
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It is most responsible for the formation of new crust at the edge of a tectonic plate?
Subduction of a continental plate under an oceanic plate
Mountain building at a continental-continental convergence
Two tectonic plates sliding past at a transform boundar
Magma rising up from the mantle at a divergent boundary
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The Himalayas in South Asia are an example of what type of plate boundary?
convergent continental-continental boundary
convergent oceanic-continental boundary
transform fault boundary
divergent boundary
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What is geology?
the branch of mathematics
survey of something
study of earths atmosphere
earths physical structure
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What does a transform plate boundary make?
seafloor spreading
volcanoes
trenches
earthquakes
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An example of a divergent plate boundary on continental lithosphere would be _________.
the Andes Mountains
the East African Rift Valley
East Pacific Rise
the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
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An underwater mountain chain where new ocean floor is formed. Caused by Divergent Boundary
volcanoe
Sea-floor spreading
Mid-Ocean Ridge
Rift Valley
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What forms when one oceanic plate is forced beneath another plate?
an ocean basin
a subduction zone
a rift valley
an ocean ridge
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The Earth’s crust is the upper layer of the lithosphere. What would you expect to find there?
variety of gaseous particles
Mantle and core
Layers of the atmosphere
Variety of solid rocks
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In the plate tectonic theory, a plate can be made up of
both continental and oceanic asthenosphere
continental lithosphere only
both continental and oceanic lithosphere
oceanic lithosphere only
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A tectonic plate consists of ...
the oceanic and continental crust only
the asthenosphere only
the crust and uppermost mantle
the crust and entire mantle
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A valley in the ocean created where one lithospheric plate subducts under another.
rift
A trench
mountain
plains
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What do you called this type of plate boundary?
Convergent
Divergent
Transform
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In the plate tectonics theory, the lithosphere is divided into ____________.
many small plates, but no large plates
100 major plates
50 major plates and many smaller plates
7 major plates and many smaller plates
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Old
crust is recycled back into magma at a divergent plate boundary (true/false)
True
False
