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What process of heat transfer occurs in the mantle and causes the plates to move?
a) convection
b) evaporation
c) radiation
d) conduction

What layer of the earth provides the heat in the process from question 1?
a) outer core
b) outer core
c) mantle
d) crust

What is one piece of evidence that shows that the ocean floor gets older as you move away from the mid-ocean ridge?
a) rock samples near the ridge are younger than samples further away
b) magnetic stripes
c) pillow lava near the ridge
d) all of the above

Which part of the Earth are the plates made from?
a) asthenosphere
b) inner core
c) outer core
d) lithosphere

What type of plate boundary is the mid-ocean ridge?
a) urgent
b) divergent
c) convergent
d) biovergent

What kind of plate boundary causes suduction?
a) plate tectonic
b) divergent
c) convergent
d) suduction plates

What type of movement occurs of the hanging wall and footwall for a normal fault?
a) They don't move
b) hanging wall up, footwall down
c) hanging wall down, footwall up
d) hanging wall up, footwall up

What type of stress causes a normal fault?
a) tension
b) stress
c) shearing
d) subduction

What type of movement of the hanging wall and the footwall occurs for a reverse fault?
a) hanging wall up, footwall up
b) side to side
c) hanging wall down, footwall down
d) hanging wall up, footwall down

What type of stress causes a reverse fault?
a) compression
b) tension
c) shearing
d) subduction

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