Plate Tectonics Review

Continental Crust

• The solid rock layer that makes up the top layer of land that we live on

• The solid rock layer that makes up the top layer of land that we find in the ocean

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Oceanic Crust

• The layer of earth found deep in the Earth near the core.

• The top layer of Earth in the ocean.

Mantle

• The layer of Earth made up of solid, cool rock.

• The layer of Earth inside the Earth's core and made up of thick, molten rock.

• The layer of Earth below the crust and made up of thick, molten rock.

At the Mid-Ocean Ridge, the plates move away from each other. the Mid-ocean Ridge passes through the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and through the middle of Iceland.

• True

• False

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What are the two types of crust?

• continental and oceanic
• ocean and basin
• lower and upper
• thick and thin

_____________ is a plate boundary where two plates move away from each other.

• Convergent boundary

• Transform boundary

• Divergent boundary

• Insurgent boundary

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A _____________ is when two plates move past each other in opposite directions.

• emergent boundary

• divergent boundary

• transform boundary

• convergent boundary

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This feature can be found along a divergent boundary

• mid-ocean ridge

• folded mountains

• deep sea trench

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Subduction means.....

• one plate goes under another plate

• two plates slide past each other

• two plate collide and form folded mountains

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The process that causes the tectonic plates to move is called.....

• subduction

• transform

• convection currents

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