Endogenic Process: Plate Tectonics
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Explain the geologic processes described in the video that led to the formation and great height of Mount Everest. In your answer, include how the movement of lithospheric plates contributed to the mountain’s present elevation.
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How does knowing plate interactions affect people's lives?
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Which of the following refers to large pieces of the lithosphere that float on the asthenosphere?
asthenosphere
the mid-ocean ridge
deep-sea trenches
tectonic plates
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The driving forces of tectonic plates are related to convection currents in which layer of the Earth?
crust
outer core
inner core
mantle
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Which of the seven major lithospheric plates consists mostly of oceanic lithosphere?
Pacific Plate
Antarctic Plate
Indo-Australian Plate
South American Plate
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Which statement does NOT summarize one of the lines of evidence used by Alfred Wegener to support his theory of continental drift?
Glacial deposits indicate a different climatic condition.
Similar fossils are found on widely separated continents.
Similar geologic formations occur on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
Bands of rock are older the farther their position from a mid-ocean ridge.
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What happens at convergent plate boundaries where oceanic and continental crust meet?
no associated volcanism occurs
oceanic crust is subducted
continental crust is subducted
oceanic crust is created
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Volcanic island arcs are associated with which of the following?
transform plate boundaries
divergent plate boundaries
ocean-ocean convergent plate boundaries
ocean-continent convergent plate boundaries
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Crust is neither destroyed nor formed along which of the following boundaries?
convergent
divergent
magnetic
transform
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Which of the following is the reason for seafloor spreading?
new material is being added to the asthenosphere
earthquakes break apart the ocean floor
sediments accumulate at the area of spreading
molten material beneath Earth's crust rises to the surface
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