Plate Tectonics Retake

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The type of plate boundary where two plates come together is a ....

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Convergent Boundary

Front

A divergent boundary occurs when plates ....

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Pull apart

Front

Where are the youngest rocks on the seafloor most likely found?

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Closest to a mid-ocean ridge

Front

The process by which molten material adds new oceanic crust to the ocean floor is called ___________. Options: Divergent boundary, Sea-floor spreading, Convergent boundary, Renovating 

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Sea-floor spreading

Front

What is the process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary?

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Subduction

Front

A _____________ is when two plates move past each other in opposite directions.

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transform boundary

Front

What is the theory that pieces of Earth's lithosphere are in constant motion, driven by convection currents in the mantle?

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Plate tectonics

Front

The lithosphere combines what two layers?

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Crust & Upper Mantel

Front

The thinnest layer of the Earth is the ___________. Options: mantle, crust, core

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crust

Front

What is the thickest layer of the Earth? Options: the crust, the mantle, the outer core, the inner core

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the mantle