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Name the plate boundary that is a result of 2 plates that COLLIDE or come together.
a) Continental Drift
b) Divergent Plate Boundary
c) Convergent Plate Boundary
d) Transform Plate Boundary

Name the plate boundary that is a result of 2 plates that SLIDE past each other.
a) Continental Drift
b) Divergent Plate Boundary
c) Convergent Plate Boundary
d) Transform Plate Boundary

Name the plate boundary that is a result of 2 plates that DIVIDE or seperate from each other.
a) Continental Drift
b) Divergent Plate Boundary
c) Convergent Plate Boundary
d) Transform Plate Boundary

What is theory proposed by Alfred Wegner’s about the Earth's Continents.
a) Continental Drift
b) Divergent Plate Boundary
c) Convergent Plate Boundary
d) Transform Plate Boundary

What is the name of the super continent proposed by Alfred Wegner's theory of Continental Drift?
a) Panama
b) Gigantus
c) Pangea
d) United States

When the two plates slide against each other in a sideway motion. Occasionally this energy is released suddenly in the form of
a) Mid Ocean Ridges
b) Subduction
c) Mountain ranges
d) Earthquakes

When two tectonic plates are moving away from each other.
a) Mid Ocean Ridge
b) Rift Valley
c) Divergent Boundary
d) All of the Above

When two plates Collide
a) Mountains
b) Volcanoes
c) Trench
d) All of the above

Subduction takes place during a Convergent Boundary when
a) The plates divide past each other
b) One plate sinks below the other plate as they collide
c) Crustal plates slide past each other
d) Continental drift

The crust and upper mantle make up Earth's
a) Lithosphere
b) Asthenosphere
c) Core
d) Continents

Plates of the lithosphere float on the.......
a) Lithosphere
b) Asthenosphere
c) Core
d) Atmosphere

Active volcanoes are more likely to form at.......
a) Continental Drift
b) Divergent Boundary
c) Convergent Boundary
d) Transform Boundary

What do scientist believe is the force behind the plate tectonics theory?
a) Gravity pulls the tectonic plates
b) Movement of the planets
c) The continents float on the ocean
d) Convection currents inside the Asthenosphere

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