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Tectonic plates move at different rates.
a) true
b) false
c)
d)

Mountains can only be formed on continental crust.
a) true
b) false
c)
d)

What action in the Earth allows the movement of the tectonic plates?
a) magnetic poles
b) convention currents in the mantle
c) rotation of the Earth around the Sun
d) weather patterns like El Nino.

Which geologic event can occur at all three plate boundaries?
a) Volcanoes
b) Basins
c) Earthquakes
d) Mountains

Volcanoes can form at which two types of boundaries?
a) divergent and transform
b) transform and convergent
c) convergent and divergent
d)

The Mariana trench is the deepest place in the ocean created by the subduction of oceanic plates. Trenches occur at what type of boundaries?
a) transform plate boundaries
b) convergent plate boundaries
c) divergent plate boundaries
d)

Which of the following major geologic events occur at transform boundaries?
a) Earthquakes
b) Volcanoes
c) Basins
d) Mountains

What is the term when tectonic plates diverge and form a bowl like area?
a) Rift
b) Trench
c) Volcano
d) Basin

What formation is created when tectonic plates converge and form folds in the land?
a) Mountain ranges
b) Trenches
c) Fault lines
d) Hot spots

The mid-Atlantic ridge is 40,000 mile long rift along the ocean floor which was formed by which of the following?
a) The divergence of oceanic and continental crust
b) The divergence of continental and continental crust
c) The divergence of oceanic and oceanic crust
d) A transform boundary in the middle of the ocean

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