Tectonic Plates Quiz 1
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The word 'lithospheric plates' denotes their _________ .
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The tiny _______ plate will eventually disappear by subduction beneath American plate.
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Eurasia and North America are the remnants of _________.
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An extension of Juan de Fuca plate in the South is _______ .
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Tectonic process takes place of ________ .
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The number of major and minor plates is _______ respectively.
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Pangaea was divided into Gondwana and Laurasia in __________
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The Australian Indian plate meets the pacific plate in _______ .
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Sea floor spreading results from ________ .
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The process of subduction produces a _______ in sea.
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A major system of rift valleys occurs in _________ .
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_______ is wedged between South Pacific plate to the east and pacific plate to the west _____ plate.
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Cocos and Rivera, both are ____.
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The largest of all plates is _____ plate.
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North American plate meets _____ along California's San Andreas fault _____ plate.
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_______ proposed that the moon was torn from the earth in the pacific basin.
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The African plate extends eastward from the mid-Antarctic ridge between ______.
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The movement of denser plate inwards towards the enterior of earth during collision is called _______ .
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Australian Indian plate meets the Eurasian plate of _________ .
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Scotia plate is present at the ________ end of South America.
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________ are also known as destructive boundaries.
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When due to tensional forces simatic crust below and sialic crust above are pulled apart _____ is formed
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The theory of continental drift' ws presented by Alfred Wagener in ________ .
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_______ in 1939 proposed that movement of land mass is due to heat-sustained convection cells.
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The subduction zone is a place of ________ tectonic activity.
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