Tectonic Plate Quiz

What type of plate boundary is where two plate collide?

• transform

• divergent

• convergent

• omnivergent

What type of plate boundary is created when plates divide, or move away from each other?

• transform

• divergent

• convergent

• omnivergent

What type of plate boundary is created as plates move past each other?

• transform

• divergent

• convergent

• omnivergent

What term do we use when one plate "sinks" beneath another plate

• subduction

• extrude

• intravert

• subside

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

At which plate boundary is crust destroyed?

• transform

• divergent

• convergent

• omnivergent

At which plate boundary is crust created?

• transform

• divergent

• convergent

• omnivergent

At this plate boundary crust is neither created or destroyed...

• transform

• divergent

• convergent

• omnivergent

Oceanic crust is mostly made up of

• basalt

• nitrogen

• salt water

• lithosphere

The outer layer of Earth (where we are located) is known as the _____________.

• core

• mantle

• asthenosphere

• lithosphere

The very hot center of the Earth where molten material is located is known as the __________.

• core

• mantle

• asthenosphere

• lithosphere