CHAPTER 11 - Plate Tectonics

The idea that the continents move around the Earth's surface is called?

• Pangea

• continental drift

• plate tectonics

• sea-floor spreading

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A long chain of undersea mountains are called?

• faults

• islands

• rift valleys

• mid-ocean ridges

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When a divergent boundary occurs under a continent what is formed?

• pillow lava

• volcano

• earthquake

• rift valley

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When a continental plates collide what may be formed?

• islands

• mountains

• volcanoes

• rift valleys

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What does Pangea "mean"?

• old land

• new land

• all land

• no land

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If a mantle plum lasts long enough what may be created?

• islands

• mountains

• deep ocean trench

• mid-ocean ridge

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When tectonic plates slide beside each other what type of boundary is it?

• convergent

• divergent

• transform fault

• slickensides

When a tectonic plate subducts under another plate, what is created?

• deep ocean trench

• slickenside

• a fault

• volcanic island

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Match the following:

• transform fault

• How the tectonic plates on Earth Move around.

• plate tectonics

• New ocean floor is created here

• sea-floor spreading

• What moves the continents apart

• convection cells

• This drives the movement of tectonic plates

• mid-ocean ridges

• Hardest type of boundary to identify

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Match the following

• divergent plate boundary

• An area where earthquakes may begin/originate

• offsetting

• Early supercontinent Wegner proposed

• subduction

• Used as evidence for transform boundary

• Pangea

• When tectonic plates sink below others into the mantle

• fault

• One place where volcanoes may occur

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