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Transform plate boundaries create strong _____.
a) volcanoes
b) earthquakes
c) mountains
d) faults

Volcanic arcs are formed along which type of plate boundary?
a) Convergent Boundary
b) Divergent Boundary
c) Transform Boundary
d) All of these

What do you call the process or driving force that makes plates move?
a) Subduction
b) Uplift
c) Convection
d) None of these

What do you call the solid layer with plasticity in the upper mantle that is located just below the lithosphere?
a) Crust
b) Asthenosphere
c) Mantle
d) Lithosphere

Which among the following type of plate boundaries results to the formation of the Mid-Ocean ridge?
a) Convergent Boundary
b) Divergent Boundary
c) Transform Boundary
d) All of these

Which among the following type of plate boundaries results to the formation of the San Andreas Fault?
a) Convergent Boundary
b) Divergent Boundary
c) Transform Boundary
d) All of these

Which among the following type of plate boundaries results to Mountain formation?
a) Convergent Boundary
b) Divergent Boundary
c) Transform Boundary
d) Convergent Boundary

The giant landmass where all continents were connected
a) Gondwana
b) Laurasia
c) Pangaea
d) Pandwana

Hot magma ______ and cool magma _______.
a) sinks; rises
b) rises; sinks
c) rises; rises
d) d) rises and sinks; only sinks

This process makes new crust at the bottom of the ocean at a divergent boundary
a) Mid-Atlantic Ridge
b) hotspot
c) subduction
d) seafloor spreading

The Hawaiian Islands are an example
a) convergent boundary
b) transform boundary
c) hotspot
d) vacation destination

The border between two tectonic plates
a) border
b) boundary
c) joint
d) fault

Oceanic crust near the mid-ocean ridge is ___________ than oceanic crust farther away from the ridge. a) younger
a) the same
b) younger
c) older
d) harder

A rift valley forms at a
a) convergent plate boundary
b) divergent plate boundary
c) transform boundary
d) deep-ocean trench

Any trace of an ancient organism that has been preserved in rock is called a
a) landform
b) continent
c) fossil
d) landmass

The process by which the ocean floor sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle is known as
a) convection
b) continental drift
c) subduction
d) conduction

The geological theory that states that pieces of Earth's lithosphere are in constant, slow motion is the theory of
a) subduction
b) plate tectonics
c) deep-ocean trenches
d) sea-floor spreading

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