Plate Tectonics Review
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Plate Tectonics Review
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25 Questions

1. What allows the lithosphere to move?

2. The asthenosphere is located -

3. Is the continental shelf part of the continent?

4. The major source of energy that moves the Earth's out shell -

5. The inner core is rich in -

6. Scientists started taking Wegener's hypothesis seriously -

7. What is the continental slope?

8. A plate tectonic is -

9. What may flow out of the crack at divergent plate boundaries?

10. How deep would you have to go into the Earth to hit the asthenosphere?

11. What technology allowed for the rapid growth of knowledge?

12. The main reason why Alfred Wegener's continental drift idea was not widely accepted -

13. How did Pangaea become the continents we know today?

14. Which lithospheric plate is the largest?

15. Lithosphere -

16. What are divergent plate boundaries?

17. 1905 -

18. Where are many of the deep ocean trenches found?

19. Why are ocean basins rather flat?

20. How many types of plate boundaries are there?

21. The lithosphere is made up of -

22. Pangaea -

23. Alfred Wegener -

24. What are convergent plate boundaries?

25. What is the little valley called that sits at the top of many parts of the summit of the oceanic ridge?