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What type of plate boundary makes earthquakes?
a) Convergent
b) Divergent
c) Transform
d)

What is the theory explaining how pieces of lithosphere move?
a) Sea Floor Spreading
b) Subduction
c) Continental Drift
d) Plate Tectonics

What is it called when one tectonic plate goes UNDER another?
a) Sea Floor Spreading
b) Subduction
c) Continental Drift
d) Plate Tectonics

What type of plate boundary slides plates past eachother?
a) Convergent
b) Divergent
c) Transform
d)

What type of plate boundary moves plates away from eachother?
a) Convergent
b) Divergent
c) Transform
d)

What type of plate boundary moves plates toward eachother?
a) Convergent
b) Divergent
c) Transform
d)

What is the name of the process that makes new oceanic crust?
a) Sea Floor Spreading
b) Subduction
c) Continental Drift
d) Plate Tectonics

What type of plate boundary makes mountains?
a) Convergent
b) Divergent
c) Transform
d)

What type of boundary makes mid ocean ridges?
a) Convergent
b) Divergent
c) Transform
d)

What type of plate boudary makes a volcano on land?
a) Divergent
b) Convergent between an oceanic and continetnal plate
c) Convergent between two continental plates
d) Convergent between two oceanic plates

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