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Transform plate boundaries creates strong_____.
a) earthquakes
b) mountains
c) volcanoes
d) faults

The process which a heavier tectonic plate sinks or move under another plate.
a) convection
b) subduction
c) sea floor speading
d) none of these

The driving force that makes plates move
a) subduction
b) convection currents
c)
d)

The soft layer with plasticity that is just below the lithosphere.
a) mantle
b) asthenosphere
c) outer core
d) inner core

What geologic feature/event would you most likely to find at a divergent boundary between two pieces of oceanic crust?
a) mid ocean ridge
b) rift valley
c) flat land
d) island arc

A subduction zone is formed...
a) when one tectonic plate sinks below another
b) at all divergent boundaries
c) when two tectonic plates collide
d) at transform boundaries

New oceanic crust (sea floor) is created at this boundary.
a) divergent
b) transform
c) convergent
d) all of them

The process that occurs at a divergent oceanic boundary that creates new crust (sea floor) is called?
a) sea floor spreading
b) continental drift
c) uplift
d) convection currents

Which type of plate boundary will you find mid ocean ridges?
a) divergent
b) convergent
c) transform
d) all boundaries

which type of boundary will you find trenches?
a) convergent
b) divergent
c) transform
d) all of the boundaries

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