Earth's Interior, Plate Tectonics, and Boundaries

What is formed at convergent, continental-continental plates?

• Mid-ocean ridge

• Volcanic mountains (volcanic arc)

• Mountains

• Rift Valley

A supercontinent made up of all land masses that existed 300 million years ago

• Chicago

• Pangaea

• Australia

• Galapagos

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Which of these does not provide evidence that the continents drifted to their present locations?

• current weather

• landform data

• deep-ocean trenches

• similar fossils on multiple continents

Which of these types of rock would most likely be the youngest?

• rock on an oceanic plate that is close to a mid-ocean ridge

• rock on an oceanic plate that is farthest from a mid-ocean ridge

• rock on a continental plate that is next to a deep ocean trench

• rock on a continental plate that is colliding with another continental plate

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Which subsystem includes all rocks, minerals, and landforms on Earth's surface and all the matter in Earth's interior?

• Atmosphere

• Geosphere

• Biosphere

• Hydrosphere

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What is formed at divergent, continental-continental plate boundaries?

• Mid-ocean ridge

• Volcanic mountains (volcanic arc)

• Mountains

• Rift valley

You watched a pot of water boil. The boiling water reminded you of the convection currents you had learned about while you studied plate tectonics. How do these currents drive the motion of Earth’s plates?

• Hot melted rock rises and cooler rock sinks in the mantle, forming currents that move the plates.

• Melted rock rises and falls, and the currents move the mantle while the crust remains in place.

• Ocean water rises as it warms and falls as it cools to move the plates.

• The crust moves in a current to drive the motion of the water in the oceans.

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What determines how plates interact with each other?

• the kind of plate that they are

• the kind of boundary between plates

• the plate thickness

• the plate age

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Where does subduction occur?

• between two diverging ocean plates

• between a converging ocean and continental plate

• between two diverging continental plates

• between two tranform boundaries

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When Plates move apart from each other, that is called a...

• convergent plate boundary

• divergent plate boundary

• transform plate boundary

• hotspot boundary

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