Test Plate Boundary

5. What type(s) of crust are on our planet? Select all that apply.

• a. Oceanic Crust
• b. Subduction Crust
• c. Continental crust
• d. Continents

6. Choose the correct boundary that is being demonstrated below.

• a. Transform boundary
• b. Divergent Boundary
• c. Convergent Boundary

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7. Choose the correct boundary that is being demonstrated below.

• a. Transform boundary
• b. Divergent Boundary
• c. Convergent Boundary

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8. Choose the correct boundary that is being demonstrated below.

• a. Transform boundary
• b. Divergent Boundary
• c. Convergent Boundary

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9. What is subduction?

• a. sideways and downward movement of one plate under another.
• b. where one plate to be pushed up by the other, heavier plate beneath it.
• c. Movement of two plates past one another.

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10. At what boundary does subduction occur?

• a. Convergent Boundary
• b. Transform Boundary
• c. Divergent Boundary

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11. What is the Earth's thin outer layer called?

• a) Mantle
• b) Core
• c) Crust

12. What does the theory of plate tectonics explain?

• a) How the Sun moves
• b) How Earth's plates move and change the surface
• c) Why there are seasons

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13. When two plates move apart, it is called a:

• a) Transform boundary
• b) Divergent boundary
• c) Convergent boundary
• d) Fault

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14. When two plates crash together, it forms:

• a) Earthquakes and mountains
• b) Oceans
• c) Deserts
• d) Rivers

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