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Where two tectonic plates slide past each other.
a) tectonic boundary
b) transform boundary
c) divergent boundary
d) convergent boundary

the earth's lithosphere is broken into pieces.
a) tectonic plates
b) sea floor spreading
c) mid-ocean ridge
d) subduction

where two tectonic plates collide with each other.
a) transform boundary
b) tectonic boundary
c) convergent boundary
d) divergent boundary

process in which new ocean floor is created as molten material from the mantle rises between plates.
a) subduction
b) mid-ocean ridge
c) tectonic plates
d) sea-floor spreading

one edge of a crustal plate is forced downwards into the mantle below another plate (crust is destroyed here).
a) tectonic plates
b) sea-floor spreading
c) subduction
d) mid-ocean ridge

two tectonic plates are moving away from each other.
a) tectonic boundary
b) divergent boundary
c) transform boundary
d) convergent boundary

a region circling the Pacific ocean that has lots of volcanoes.
a) Ring of Fire
b) Ring of Volcanoes
c) Ring of Pacific
d) Ring of Subduction

underwater mountain range formed by plate tectonics.
a) subduction
b) sea-floor spreading
c) tectonics
d) mid-ocean ridge

Name of the man who proposed the hypothesis was Continental Drift.
a) Harry Hines
b) Alfred Wagon
c) Alfred Wegener
d) Harry Hess

The hypothesis that the continents were once joined as one super-continent.
a) Tectonic plates
b) Divergent
c) Convergent
d) Pangaea

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