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Earth's Tectonic Plates
Test Description: Vocab review
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1) divided into a dozen major and several minor plates
A
Core
B
Mantle
C
Lithosphere
D
Asthenosphere
2) The movement of the plates over Earth’s surface is called __________.
A
seafloor spreading
B
earthquakes
C
plate motion
D
plate tectonics
3) These plates can be composed in a combination of _______ lithosphere or _________lithosphere
A
crustal or mantle
B
brittle or viscous
C
viscous or fluid
D
oceanic or continental
4) An earthquakes ______- is the point on Earth’s surface directly above the place where the earthquake occurs
A
zenith
B
plyometric
C
focus
D
epicenter
5) Earthquake epicenters outline the plates because earthquakes occur everywhere _____ come into contact with each other.
A
plates
B
volcanoes
C
oceans
D
mountains
6) Hot mantle form two adjacent cells rises at the ridge axis, creating new ocean crust 2. The top part of the convection cell moves horizontally away from the ridge crest 3. The outer parts of the convection cells plunge down into the deeper mantle, wh
A
conduction
B
radiation
C
Transduction
D
Convection
7) __________ are the areas where two plates meet. The type of plate boundary and the type of crust found on the boundary determines what kinds of geologic activity are present.
A
mountains
B
plate boundaries
C
oceans
D
volcanoes
8) Two plates move away from each other
A
Divergent Plate boundary
B
transfigured plate boundary
C
convergent plate boundary
D
transform plate coundary
9) Two plates move towards each other
A
transform plate boundary
B
convergent plate boundary
C
transfigured plate boundary
D
divegent plate boundary
10) Two plates slip past each other
A
Transform plate boundary
B
convergent plate boundary
C
divergent plate boundary
D
transfigured plate boundary
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