Plate Tectonics Review

True or False?

This picture is of a subduct plate boundary.

• True

• False

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True or false?

This picture is of a divergent plate boundary.

• True

• False

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The tallest mountains on the planet, Himalayan Mountains, are formed at which plate boundary?

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transform

• Subduct

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Which of the following reasons is why tectonic plates move?

• The mantle has convection currents and the crust float and moves with these currents.

• The gravitational pull of the moon pulls differently on the different thicknesses of the plates.

• The inner core is spinning and moves the tectonic plates.

• The daily move of people, car, buses, trains, and ships create tectonic plate movement

What has to be different about two tectonic plates for a subduction zone to form?

• One has to be more dense than the other.

• One has to be thicker than the other.

• One has to be warmer than the other.

• One has to have a greater volume than the other.

The majority of earthquakes and volcanoes occur at which of the following locations?

• The Pacific Ring of Fire

• Mid-Atlantic Ridge

• San Andreas Fault

• The Great Barrier Reef

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A subduction zone can be found at which plate boundary?

• Convergent

• Transform

• Divergent

• Plate Boundary

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Which of the following best describes why the Earth's plates move?

• Heat from the Core makes mantle material change densities and rise, which causes movement in the mantle

• Convection in the core causes the density to rise and make the Earth's inner layers spin

• Convection currents in the atmosphere push down on the plates causing movement

• Heat moving from sun's rays reflect off the moon to cause plate tectonic movement

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Who came up with the Theory of Plate Tectonics?

• Alfred Wegener

• Albert Weatly

• Alfrado Vegener

• Andrew Whiter

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Which of the following is evidence to support the Theory of Continental Drift?

• All of the answer choices

• Jigsaw puzzle continents

• Fossils of the same plant and animal spanning different continents

• Rock pattern spanning different continents

• A fossil of a tropical flower in Antarctica

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