Learn from any mistakes you make in this plate challenge!
What is the earth’s outermost layer?
crust
CORRECT!
lithosphere
mantle
outer core
California’s San Andreas Fault is identified as which of the following?
Strike-slip fault
CORRECT!
blind thrust fault
dip-slip fault
normal fault
Which of these can transform a boundary?
earthquake
CORRECT!
volcanic eruption
mountain formation
rift formation
Which of these can cause a mountain formation?
two continental plates collide
CORRECT!
two oceanic plates collide
two oceanic plates spread apart
none of these choices
Which of these DON’T usually happen at a divergent boundary?
mountain formation
CORRECT!!
rift valley
seafloor spreading
volcano formation
What type of crust is found under the oceans?
oceanic crust
CORRECT!!
continental crust
geologic crust
no crust
What type of crust is found under the continents?
continental crust
CORRECT!!
oceanic crust
geologic crust
no crust
What are tectonic plates doing at mid-ocean ridges?
spreading apart
CORRECT!!
colliding
sliding past each other
nothing
What is the earth’s only liquid layer?
outer core
CORRECT!!
asthenosphere
inner core
mantle
Which scientist is credited with proposing the ideas that led to the development of the plate tectonics theory?
Alfred Wegener
CORRECT!!
Charles Dawrin
Albert Einstein
Isaac Newton