The two main types of tectonic plates

• Mountain

• Oceanic

• Continental

• Dessert

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What are the broken up pieces of the lithosphere called?

• Tectonic Plates

• Mountains

• Ridges

• Oceans

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Process of new oceanic crust forming as magma rises toward the surface and solidifies is called?

• Mountain making

• Sea-Floor Spreading

• Earthquakes

• Buttermilk Biscuits

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Hypothesis that the continents once formed a single land mass, broke up, and drifted to their present locations is called?

• Landmass shift

• Mass break away

• Continental Drift

• Wet Pancaking

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The landmass that existed when all continents were joined was called?

• Pangea

• Alfred

• Pacific

• The land before time

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What occurs when 2 tectonic plates collide, and one plate moves under the other & sinks into the mantle?

• Subduction

• Slip

• Up and under

• Over and under

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The theory explaining how tectonic plates move and change shape

• Theory of Plate Tectonics

• Theory of Evolution

• Theory of Gravity

• Theory of Mass Shift

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Places where tectonic plates meet are called?

• Boundaries

• Joints

• Cracks

• Jelly

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boundary formed by collision of 2 plates (collide, crash, collision)

• Convergent Boundary

• Boom Boom Boundary

• Push Boundary

• Snoopy Boundary

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The boundary between 2 plates moving away from each other (separate, divide)

• Divergent Boundary

• Convergent Boundary

• Boom Boom Boundary

• Jump Boundary

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