Plate Tectonics Quiz

A ______ is a section of the lithosphere that slowly moves over the asthenosphere, carrying large slabs of continental and oceanic crust.

• plate

• faults

• wedge

• chunk

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 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

• transform

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_____________ is a plate boundary where two plates move away from each other.

• convergent boundary

• transform boundary

• divergent boundary

• insurgent boundary

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_____________ is when two plates move toward each other.

• convergent boundary

• allegiant boundary

• transform boundary

• sliding boundary

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A _____________ is when two plates move past each other in opposite directions.

• emergent boundary

• divergent boundary

• transform boundary

• convergent boundary

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A _________ is a valley that forms where two plates move apart.

• fissure

• rift valley

• sea-floor spreading

• fault

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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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Created by a divergent boundary.

• Rocky Mountains

• Mariana Trench

• Mid-Atlantic Ridge

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