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What is the process that makes new ocean floor?
a) subduction
b) plate tectonics
c) seafloor spreading
d) continental drift

What is the process where old ocean floor sinks into the mantle?
a) seafloor spreading
b) continental drift
c) plate tectonics
d) subduction

What is the name of long chains of mountains on the ocean floor?
a) mid-ocean ridges
b) faults
c) deep ocean trenches
d) compressions

What are deep underwater canyons where subduction takes place?
a) mid-ocean ridges
b) deep ocean trenches
c) faults
d) underwater volcanoes

What is the name of the theory that states that Earth's plates are in constant motion
a) continental drift
b) plate tectonics
c) plate drift
d) platology

What is the name for a crack in the Earth's crust where rocks can move?
a) trench
b) hot spot
c) ridge
d) fault

Name the type of stress that squeezes rock
a) compression
b) subduction
c) induction
d) sedmentation

Name the type of stress that stretches rock.
a) compression
b) subduction
c) tension
d) shearing

Name the force that acts on rock to change its shape or volume.
a) tension
b) subduction
c) stress
d) shearing

Name the type of stress that twists rock in opposite directions
a) shearing
b) stress
c) tension
d) subduction

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