PLATE TECTONICS

What role does convection currents play in Earth's mantle?

• makes our wind

• they help plate movement in the crust

• the boil our ocean water

• they create mountains

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True or False? Alfred Wegener's idea of continental drift was and still is a hypothesis.

• TRUE

• FALSE

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True or False? Plate Boundaries cannot be continental to continental or oceanic to oceanic.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Convergent plate boundaries can sometimes occur from oceanic plate to continental plate. When this happens, a __________ zone can form.

• SURPRISE

• SUBDUCTION

• ADDITION

• OCEAN

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When plates are CONVERGING, how are they moving?

• MOVING APART- DIVIDING

• SLIDING PAST EACH OTHER

• MOVING TOGETHER- COLLIDING

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When plates are DIVERGING, how are they moving?

• THEY ARE MOVING APART- DIVIDING

• MOVING PAST EACH OTHER

• COLLINDING

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At a transform boundary, the plates are....

• SLIDING PAST EACH OTHER

• COLLIDING

• DIVIDING

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Where are Earth's plates located?

• EARTH'S MANTLE & CRUST

• EARTH'S INNER CORE

• EARTH'S OUTTER CORE

Which layer of Earth is liquid iron & nickel?

• crust

• inner core

• outer core

• mantle

Why is the inner core solid?

• because it is cold

• because it has so much pressure from the above layers

• because it just is

• because its metal

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