Tectonic Plates and Plate Boundaries

What are the two types of crust?

• continental and oceanic

• ocean and basin

• lower and upper

• thick and thin

What is Pangaea?

• The name of a German Scientist

• the name of the supercontinent that existed millions of years ago

• A pink volcano

• the name of an ancient fossil

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Who is the person created with developing the theory of continental drift?

• Harry Hess

• Galileo

• Alfred Wegener

• Obama

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Three Types of Plate Boundaries

• Transform (slide past)

• Convergent (collision)

• Divergent (pull apart)

• All the above

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Boundary between two colliding plates, often associated with mountain building, and volcanic eruptions

• plate boundary

• magma

• divergent boundary

• convergent boundary

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Example of divergent boundary between two continental plates.

• Mid-Atlantic Ridge (valley in the Atlantic Ocean)

• Andes Mountains (S. America)

• Himalayan Mountains

• None of the above

formed by two continental plates colliding and forcing each other upwards during convergent boundary

• grassland

• mountain ranges

• snow

• trench

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New crust forms along a(n)

• subduction zone

• divergent boundary

• convergent boundary

• transform boundary

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BONUS! FUTURE TOPIC! This is the outermost, rigid layer of the Earth, made up of two parts, is divided into pieces call tectonic plates.

• Inner Core

• Asthensophere

• Lithosphere

• Outer Core

The San Andreas Fault in California is known as an active earthquake area. What type of

boundary is it?

• Converging

• Diverging

• Transform

• Sea Floor Spreading