Take This Quiz Plate Tectonics

1. When plates move towards each other it's called:

Divergent

Convergent

Transform

2. When plates slide past each other their called:

Divergent

Convergent

Transform

3. When plates move apart it's called.......

Divergent

Convergent

Transform

Subduction

4. In convection currents, denser material will sink and less dense material will rise.

True

False

5. When new crust is added to the ocean floor, it's called

Subduction

Seafloor spreading

Trench

Convergence

6. What drives plate movement?

Plate boundaries

Ocean currents

Convection currents

The sun

7. Another word for a deep valley or crack in the earth is:

Seamount

Rift

Ridge

8. The soft layer of mantle on which the lithosphere rests is the:

Asthenosphere

Mesosphere

Outer core

Inner core

9. If oceanic crust and continental crust came towards each other, what would happen?

Mountains would form

The continental crust would subduct beneath the oceanic crust

The oceanic crust would subduct beneath the continental crust

The oceanic crust would rise above the continental crust

10. Where does the magma get its heat from in convection currents?

The crust

The mantle

The core