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- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.The type of plate boundary where two plates come together is a .....Convergent BoundaryDivergent BoundaryTransform BoundaryPlate Boundary
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Which of the following causes Earth's tectonic plates to move?Energy from the SunMagnetic Pole ReversalConvection currents in the mantleFaults in Mountain Ranges
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What type of event will occur at this boundary?EarthquakeVolcano EruptionTornadoMountain Building - Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.What type of plate boundary is this?PlateDivergentConvergentTransform
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.A divergent boundary occurs when plates ....Pull apartCome togetherSlide past each othersubducting
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Which of the following is the name of the ancient supercontinent formed 28 Million Years ago.PangeaGondwandaLaurasiaNeverland
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.What type of plate boundary is this?TransformConvergentDivergentPlate
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.How is it possible for new crust to be formed without increasing the surface area of the Earth?Crust is destroyed at the same time it is createdNew crust is underwater where it sinksNew crust breaks more easily than old crust
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Which type of rock results from melting and cooling of magma?IgneousMetamorphicSedimentaryExtrusive
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Which type of rock forms from extreme heat and pressure?IgneousSedimentaryOrganicMetamorphic
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Wind, water, and ice breaking down rock is calledErosionDepositionCompactionWeathering
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.When sediments are pressed together tightly, this is called ____________.CompactionCementationWeatheringErosion
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.This rock was found near the mouth of a volcano. What type of rock is this?SedimentaryIgneousMetamorphic
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.This rock was formed by smaller pieces of rock that settled at the bottom of a lake millions of years ago. What type of rock is this?SedimentaryIgneousMetamorphic
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.What are the 3 major types of rocks?Igneous, Metamorphic, SedimentaryMetamorphic, Igneous, CementationBrown, Red, GrayStreak, Hardness, Breakage
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.This rock started as lava that cooled and then was heated and put under pressure over time. What type of rock is this?SedimentarIgneousMetamorphic
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Rock that forms when sediment from older rocks get pressed and cemented together.Sedimentary RockMetamorphic RockIgneous Rock
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.What is small pieces of rock material?grainlavamagmasediment
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Two ways to describe types of igneous rocks are _____Extrusive and IntrusiveFoliated and Non-FoliatedClastic and BiochemicalBlack and Gray
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.A subduction zone is formed...when one tectonic plate sinks below anotherat every type of convergent plate boundaryat every type of divergent plate boundaryat transform boundaries