Plate Tectonics

Front

Which type of plate boundary would cause mountains to form?

Back

Convergent

Front

This layer of Earth is solid Iron and Nickel

Back

Inner Core

Front

The Great Rift Valley in Africa and the Mid-Ocean Ridge were all created by this boundary.

Back

Divergent

Front

This layer of Earth is the thickest part.

Back

mantle

Front

What are the two types of crust? Options: continental and oceanic, ocean and upper, lower and upper, pizza and subway

Back

continental and oceanic

Front

Which layer has convection currents? Options: Inner Core, Outer Core, Mantle, Crust

Back

Mantle

Front

Subduction zones in the ocean can create which features? (Options: islands, volcanoes, earthquakes, all of the above)

Back

All of the above

Front

Earthquakes and volcanoes are most likely found in which locations? Options: At plate boundaries, in oceans, in the middle of continents, in the middle of plates

Back

At plate boundaries

Front

When one plate sides underneath another, it _________ and the magma _________.

Back

melts, rises

Front

The Himalayas in Asia are an example of what type of plate boundary?

Back

continent-to-continent convergent