AP Environmental Science

The surface of the earth, otherwise known as the ______, is broken into seven major pieces and sits atop a liquid layer called the _______

• lithosphere, asthenosphere

• astenosphere, mantle

• crust, litosphere

• asthenosphere, lithosphere

In a transform plate boundary, the ...

• plates are the same age

• convergent plate is older, oceanic plate is younger

• convergent plate is younger, divergent plate is older

• closer the plates are the younger they are

The San Andrea's Fault in California is which type of boundary?

• Convergent
• Divergent
• Subductive Zone
• Transform

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The layer of soil which the topsoil is found.

• Horizon A
• Horizon B
• Horizon C
• Horizon D or R

Most of the freshwater around the world is used for the following purpose.

• industry
• residential
• agriculture
• recreation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

The type of plate boundary where two plates come together is a .....

• Convergent Boundary

• Divergent Boundary

• Transform Boundary

• Plate Boundary

What type of event will occur at this boundary?

• Earthquake

• Volcano Eruption

• Tornado

• Mountain Building

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

A divergent boundary occurs when plates ....

• Pull apart

• Come together

• Slide past each other

• subducting

Mountains are created when....

• Two continental plates collide

• Two oceanic plates pull apart

• An Oceanic plate subducts under a Continental Plate

• Two continental plates pull apart

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The process by which the ocean floor sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle is known as _______

• convection.

• continental drift.

• subduction.

• conduction.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2