Plate Tectonics - 2

What is the main idea of the following set of words and phrases?
trenches, rift valley, transform boundary, plate tectonics

• trenches
• rift valley
• plate tectonics
• transform boundary

Which of the following is not a type of boundary?

• transform
• divergent
• convergent
• mid ocean ridge

Which of the following is most likely to happen at a transform boundary?

• major earth quakes
• mid ocean ridge
• rift valley
• deep sea trenches

When at least one of two continental plates is moving vertically, what will most likely form?

• a trench
• mountains
• Pangaea
• erosion

Which of the following IS caused by plate tectonics?

• tides
• sunsets
• earthquakes
• full moon

New islands sometimes form in the ocean. What is the cause of these new islands forming?

• volcanoes
• they are man-made
• landslides
• weathering

Mountains form when a continental plate and an oceanic plate collide.

• True
• False

What would you be most likely to find at a convergent boundary between a continental and oceanic plate?

• Mountains
• Volcanoes
• Mid-Ocean Ridge
• Rift

What would you be most likely to find at a divergent boundary between two pieces of oceanic crust?

• Rift
• Mid-Ocean Ridge
• Island Arc
• Flat land

A subduction zone is formed...

• when one tectonic plate sinks below another
• at every type of convergent plate boundary
• at every type of divergent plate boundary
• at transform boundaries