Plate Tectonics, quizizz 2

What did Wegener think happened during continental drift?

• continents froze over
• continents moved
• the mantle warmed
• convection stopped

The area around the pacific plate where boundaries form is called...

• death ring
• fire zone
• ring of fire
• zone of fire

Associated with transform boundaries.

• Volcanoes
• mountains
• trenches
• earthquakes

What happens to temperature as you go deeper in the Earth?

• decreases
• increases
• fluctuates
• remains the same

The vibration and shaking of the Earth...

• volcanism
• plateau
• earthquake
• richter scale

Younger sea floor crust is located...

• farther from the mid-ocean ridges
• at the mid ocean ridges
• at the subduction zone
• near the continents

This land formation occurs at a divergent continental/ continental boundary.

• mid ocean ridge
• deep ocean trench
• pacific hot spot
• rift valley

Which ocean is expanding due to a mid-ocean ridge?

• Indian
• Dead Sea
• Atlantic
• Artic

This fault occurs when crust slides past each other with little up or down movement.

• normal
• compression
• reverse
• strike-slip

Which of the following is where one plate slides under another plate and old crust is recycled?

• submarine zone
• divergence zone
• subduction zone
• lower zone