Plate Tectonics

A break in Earth's crust along which rocks move is called a ________.

• plate
• rift
• fault
• breach

What is the name of the single landmass that began to break apart 200 million years ago?

• Panthalassa
• Laurasia
• Gondwanna
• Pangaea

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The process by which molten material adds new oceanic crust to the ocean floor is called ___________.

• Divergent boundary
• Sea-floor spreading
• Convergent boundary
• Renovating 

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What is an undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor is produced?

• Rift valley
• Deep-ocean trench
• Mid-ocean ridge
• Transform bounda

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

• Subduction
• Induction
• Abduction 
• Reduction

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

• Seismic waves
• Convection current
• Divergent boundary
• Plate tectonics

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What type of event will occur at this boundary?

• Earthquake

• Volcano Eruption

• Tornado

• Mountain Building

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Mountains are created when....

• Two continental plates collide

• Two oceanic plates pull apart

• An Oceanic plate subducts under a Continental Plate

• Two continental plates pull apart

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Which of these events can ONLY happen on a DIVERGENT BOUNDARY?

• Rift Valley

• Mountain

• A peninsula

• An Insanely complex, long answer that you will click out of instinct.

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Rising magma that results from subduction may produce...

• fossil layers

• volcanic island arcs

• deep-sea sediment

• seafloor spreading

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