Unit Three Review: Plate Tectonics

What is the name of each of the plate boundaries in the image?

• 1: Divergent, 2: Convergent, 3: Transform

• 1: Convergent, 2: Divergent, 3: Transform

• 1: Transform, 2: Convergent, 3: Divergent

• 1: Transfrom, 2: Divergent, 3: Convergent

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Where would the oldest rock on the ocean floor be found?

• Mid-Ocean Ridges

• Between the Mid-Ocean Ridges and the Deep Sea Trenches

• Deep Sea Trenches

• Ocean flood is all the same age

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Who developed the theory of plate tectonics?

• Albert Einstein

• Isaac Newton

• Charles Darwin

• Alfred Wegener

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What type of boundary created Mount Everest?

• Convergent: Continental-Continental

• Convergent: Continental-Oceanic

• Convergent: Oceanic-Oceanic

• Divergent

• Transform

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What type of boundaries do not create volcanoes?

• Convergent: Continental-Continental

• Convergent: Continental-Oceanic

• Convergent: Oceanic-Oceanic

• Divergent

• Transform

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What is it called when one plate pushes under another plate as they collide?

• Transforming

• Plate Tectonics

• Convection

• Subduction

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What is the lithosphere?

• The outer core and inner core combined

• The mantle and the crust combined

• The part of the mantle that can flow

• The crust and the solid part of the mantle

Which of the following are evidence of seafloor spreading?

• The Mid-Ocean Ridge is the largest mountain chain

• There are alternating magnetic stripes on the ocean floor

• There are rocks that look like pillows

• There have been drilling samples to date the parts of the seafloor

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Which layers of Earth are completely liquid?

• The curst

• The mantle

• The outer core

• The inner core

What creates Earth's magnetic field?

• The convection currents in the mantle

• The liquid outer core interacting with the solid inner core

• The differences between the lithosphere and asthenosphere

• The rate of rotation of the Earth