Plate Tectonics

What are the Earth's landmasses called?

• Pangea
• Oceans
• Continents

When magma reaches the surface, what is it called?

• lava
• explosive
• rocks

What is the shaking and trembling that results from movement of rock beneath Earth's surface?

• Volcanoes
• Earthquakes
• Plate tectonics

What is the crust that makes up the ocean floor called?

• oceanic crust
• crust
• continental crust

The movement of tectonics plates at a fault is a cause of what?

• convergent boundaries
• rift valleys
• Earthquakes

Scientists think that the movement of Earth's tectonic plates are caused by convection currents, that are located in the _________?

• outer core
• inner core
• mantle

Features formed at divergent boundaries are called?

• mountains
• earthquakes
• rift valleys

What is a weak spot in the crust where molten material, or magma, comes to the surface?

• volcano
• lava
• earthquakes

Two plates move toward each other at what?

• convergent boundary
• transform boundary
• divergent boundary

The idea that Earth's crust is made up of separate plates that float on the upper mantle is the theory of what?

• plate tectonics
• continental drift
• Pangea