Plate Tectonics

What are the two types of layers in the Earth?

• Chemical and mechanical layers

• Crust and mantle

• Lithosphere and asthenosphere

• Outer core and inner core

What is the name of the theory that explains the movement of Earth's plates?

• Plate tectonics theory

• Continental drift theory

• Pangaea theory

• Subduction theory

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What happens at convergent boundaries?

• Two plates collide

• Two plates slide past each other

• Two plates move away from each other

• Magma oozes up from the mantle

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What is formed when two plates collide at a convergent boundary?

• Volcanoes

• Mountains

• Earthquakes

• Fissures

What is the largest transformed boundary in the world?

• San Andreas Fault

• Ring of Fire

• Mid-Atlantic Ridge

• East African Great Rift Valley

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What occurs at divergent boundaries under the ocean?

• Sea floor spreading

• Volcanic eruptions

• Mountain formation

• Earthquakes

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How fast do the Earth's plates move per year?

• One to two inches

• Ten to twenty inches

• One to two feet

• Ten to twenty feet

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What is the process by which the ocean floor sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle?

• Subduction

• Convection

• Seafloor spreading

• Plate tectonics

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Which layer of the Earth is broken into tectonic plates?

• Lithosphere

• Asthenosphere

• Mesosphere

• Inner core

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What is the boundary called where two tectonic plates move away from each other?

• Divergent boundary

• Convergent boundary

• Transform boundary

• Subduction zone

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