Sea Floor Spreading and Plate Tectonics

What is the motion of Earth's plates like?

• fast and in stages

• slow and in stages

• fast and constant

• slow and constant

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Boundary where two plates slip past each other, moving in opposite directions are?

• divergent

• transform

• convergent

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Based on evidence from land features, fossils and climate, Wegener concluded that continents

• sink

• rise

• move

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Subduction takes place at

• mid-ocean ridges

• deep-ocean trenches

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A valley along the ocean floor beneath which oceanic crust slowly sinks toward the mantle is?

• deep-ocean trenches

• mid-ocean ridges

• sea-floor spreading

• subduction

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Process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary is?

• mid-ocean ridge

• sea-floor spreading

• deep-ocean trenches

• subduction

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Boundary where two plates collide?

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

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A theory explaining how the tectonic plates (or lithosphere plates) on earth's surface move

• Volcanic Eruptions

• Plate Tectonics

• Earthquakes

• Continental Drift

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A long chain of undersea mountains

a

sea floor spreading

mid ocean ridge

oceanic plates

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a hypothesis that new molten material is erupting from mid ocean ridge.

• mid ocean ridge

• sea floor spreading

• Partially true

• Unknown

Answer explanation

a hypothesis that new molten material is erupting from mid ocean ridge.

the plates where these plates meet are called plate bboundaries

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