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title: Plate tectonics — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Geography
description: The 14 test and exam questions of lesson 42 «Plate tectonics» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Plate tectonics

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The 14 questions of lesson 42 «Plate tectonics» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with their options, 78 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/geography/42-plate-tectonics/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/42-plate-tectonics/t1/) — Leo says the plates float on a sea of liquid lava. Put him right. — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/42-plate-tectonics/t2/) — "my nails grow like 3 cm a year, so plates are basically the same speed??" Is that roughly right? — right ✓ · ★
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/42-plate-tectonics/t3/) — What would happen if no plate ever sank into the mantle any more? — right ✓ · ★
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/42-plate-tectonics/t4/) — The Himalayas still grow a few millimetres a year. Which kind of plate edge explains this? — right ✓ · ★
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/42-plate-tectonics/t5/) — Japan has deep trenches offshore and a line of volcanoes. What is happening under it? — right ✓ · ★
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/42-plate-tectonics/t6/) — "san andreas fault, mate, does it make volcanoes or what?" — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/42-plate-tectonics/t7/) — In a film, a crack opens and California floats off into the Pacific overnight. What's wrong? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/42-plate-tectonics/t8/) — Iceland sits right on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. What would you expect there? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/42-plate-tectonics/t9/) — Why did Wegener's idea win in the end? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/42-plate-tectonics/t10/) — Your mate says the Atlantic is shrinking, so New York is getting closer to London. Right? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/42-plate-tectonics/e1/) — Identify the principal force to which the motion of the lithospheric plates is attributed. — right ✓ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/42-plate-tectonics/e2/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises a divergent plate boundary such as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge? — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/42-plate-tectonics/e3/) — It is given that two continental plates converge. Ascertain the consequence that is consistent with the established facts. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/42-plate-tectonics/e4/) — Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning the reception of Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift. — right ✓ · exam

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