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Plate Tectonics
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What type of landform is created at all plate boundaries?
Volcanoes
Faults
Mountains
Ocean Trenches
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What happens at a divergent boundary?
Plates move apart
Plates slide past each other
No Movement occurs
Plates collide
3
What causes earthquakes?
Sudden movements along fault lines
Gravity shifts
Movement of magma
Weather changes
4
What type of boundary forms mid-ocean ridges?
Divergent
Convergent
Transform
Subduction
5
What landform is created when two continental plates collide?
Mid-Oceanic Ridge
Ocean trenches
Mountains
Rift valleys
6
What is a transform boundary?
Plates collide
Plates sink into the mantle
Plates move apart
Plates slide past each other
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Which boundary type forms valleys?
Convergent
Divergent
Transform
Subduction
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What supercontinent existed 300 million years ago?
Eurasia
Laurasia
Pangea
Gondwana
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What happens at a convergent boundary?
Plates move toward each other
Plates stay still
Plates move apart
Plates slide past each other
10
Where do most earthquakes occur?
Along plate boundaries
Near Rivers
In Deserts
In the middle of continents
11
What plant fossil was used to provide evidence for plate tectonics?
Quercus "Oak trees"
Hedera helix "Ivy"
Pinus "Pine Trees"
Glossopteris "Ferns"
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What type of plate boundary most
often
forms volcanoes?
Convergent
Divergent
Subduction
Transform
13
What causes seafloor spreading?
Convergent Boundaries
Subduction Zones
DIvergent Boundaries
Transform Boundaries
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What feature is commonly found at a transform boundary?
Mid-Oceanic Ridges
Deep Trenches
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
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What is a fault?
A type of earthquake
A type of volcano
A large hill
A crack in the Earth's Crust
16
What process occurs when oceanic crust sinks beneath continental crust?
Subduction
Seafloor Spreading
Divergence
Transform Motion
17
What evidence supports continental drift?
Volcanoes
Tides
Earthquakes
Similar fossils found on different continents
18
Which of the following is NOT evidence of plate tectonics?
Fossil distribution
Matching rock formations
Climate change
Earthquakes
19
What happens when oceanic and continental crust collide?
No movement occurs
Oceanic crust subducts under continental crust
Continental crust subducts under oceanic crust
Oceanic crust rises above the continental crust
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What type of feature is created at a subduction zone?
Rift Valley
Deep Ocean Trench
Fault
Mid-Ocean Ridge
