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100

What is the specific name of the type of plate boundary where two plates move away from each other

What is Divergent

100
What is the name of the well-known fault that runs most of then length of California?
What is the San Andreas Fault.
100
What theory states that the earth's surface is broken into separate plates?
What is the plate techtonic theory.
100
Which plate is the North American plate moving away from? (picture)
What is the Eurasian Plate.
100
What is the name of the area where two tectonic plates meet?
What is a plate boundary.
200

What is the specific name for the type of plate boundary where two plates move toward each other

What is convergent

200
What landform is likely to form when two continental plates collide?
What is a folded mountain range.
200
Which theory came first? The plate techtonic theory or the continental drift theory?
What is the continental drift theory.
200
Convention currents provide the movement that drives tectonic plate interactions. In what layer of the earth are these currents found?
What is the mantle.
200
What is the name of the process by which new sea floor forms and existing rock is pushed in opposite directions away from the ridge?
What is seafloor spreading.
300
What is the specific name of the type of plate boundary where the plates slide by each other?
What is a transform boundary.
300
When two continental plates pull apart, what is formed?
What is a rift valley
300
true or false? Techtonic plates only carry continents?
What is false.
300
Which plate carries the world's largest ocean?
What is the Pacific plate.
300
Which of the following is NOT evidence for the theory of plate tectonics? * a rift valley * seafloor spreading * the structure of Earth's core * a mid-ocean ridge
What is the structure of the earth's core.
400
What is the name of the region where one plate slides under another?
What is the subduction zone.
400
What is the name for a break, or crack, in Earth's surface along which rock has moved?
What is a fault.
400
Alfred Wegener believed that hundreds of millions of years age, the continents were joined as one large landmass that he called?
What is Pangaea?
400
In which part of Earth are tectonic plates found?
What is the lithosphere.
400
The East African Rift valley is created by what specific type of plate boundary?
What is Divergent.
500

What is the specific name of this type of plate boundary when mountains are formed?

What is convergent continental-continental

500

An oceanic plate and a continental plate collide. which one will subduct and why?

The oceanic because its denser. 

500
What is the name of the belt of volcano and earthquake activity surrounding the Pacific Ocean?
What is the ring of fire.
500
The lithosphere floats on top of the?
What is asthenosphere.
500
True or false? Continental crust made of granite is less dense than oceanic crust made of basalt.
What is true.
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