Plate Margins

Which part of the Earth is found above the mantle?

• Outer core

• Crust

• Inner core

What is the name given to semi-molten rock?

• Mantle

• Magma

• Mountain

What is the name given to the hot underground currents which move plates around?

• Conservative

• Constructive

• Convection

What is the name given to margins where plates move towards each other?

• Destructive

• Constructive

• Conservative

What is the name given to margins where plates move apart?

• Constructive

• Destructive

• Conservative

Where do volcanoes occur?

• At conservative plate margins

• At constructive and destructive plate margins

• Along all kinds of plate margins

What is subduction?

• When two plates move towards each other

• When two plates move apart from each other

• When the oceanic plate is forced beneath the continental plate

Where is continental crust found?

• At the Earth's core

• Under land masses and continents

• Under oceans

What name is given to margins where plates move side by side?

• Conservative

• Destructive

• Constructive

Crust is neither created nor destroyed at the transform boundary.

• True

• False