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Grade 8 Oceanography and Hydrology
Point C on the diagram best depicts which of these geologic processes?
Meandering River
  1. erosion
  2. lithification
  3. subduction
  4. metamorphism
Grade 8 Oceanography and Hydrology
Which is a way sediment enters rivers and streams?
  1. Subduction
  2. Erosion
  3. Waves
  4. Compaction
Grade 8 Tectonics
Grade 8 Geography
When an oceanic plate confronts a continental plate a subduction zone may be created. What statement best explains the term "Subduction?"
  1. The lighter plate goes underneath the heavier plate causing hot magma activity
  2. the heavier plate goes underneath the lighter plate causing hot magma activity
  3. both are true statements
  4. all are true statements
Grade 5 Tectonics
Grade 7 Tectonics
What is most likely found at a subduction zone?
  1. a volcano
  2. a glacier
  3. a plain
  4. a hill
Grade 8 Tectonics
Grade 8 Tectonics
                plate movement means to move apart.
  1. Convergent
  2. Divergent
  3. Subduction
  4. Transform
Grade 7 Tectonics
What is most likely to happen at a subduction zone?
  1. volcanic eruptions
  2. mid-ocean ridge formation
  3. creation of oceanic crust
Grade 5 Oceanography and Hydrology
Grade 7 Tectonics
What is the action of one plate moving underneath the other called?
  1. focus
  2. divergent boundary
  3. subduction
  4. shearing
Grade 7 Tectonics
Old ocean crust melts at
  1. subduction zones.
  2. ridges.
  3. faults.
  4. beaches.
Grade 5 Oceanography and Hydrology
Grade 5 Oceanography and Hydrology
Grade 8 Tectonics
What happens in the mantle that causes the plates to move?
  1. Subduction
  2. Convection Currents
  3. Conduction Currents
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