Forces That Change the Earth

What type of plate boundary is this?

• Plate
• Divergent
• Convergent
• Transform

What type of event can occur at this boundary?

• Earthquake
• Volcano Eruption
• Tornado
• Mountain Building

Which of the following causes Earth's tectonic plates to move?

• Energy from the Sun
• Magnetic Pole Reversal
• Convection currents in the mantle
• Faults in Mountain Ranges

What type of plate boundary is this?

• Transform
• Convergent
• Divergent
• Plate

The theory that says Earth's continents once made up an ancient supercontinent, and have been drifting apart ever since, led to the current theory of...

• Pangea
• Plate Tectonics
• Natural Selection
• Gravity

Where would the youngest rock be found?

• L
• M
• N
• O

Mountains are created when....

• Two continental plates collide
• Two oceanic plates pull apart
• An Oceanic plate subducts under a Continental Plate
• Two continental plates pull apart

When an oceanic plate and a continental plate collide, which one will subduct?

• oceanic
• continental
• neither

A mid-ocean ridge occurs at a ________ plate boundary.

• transform
• convergent
• divergent

Which of these events can ONLY happen on a DIVERGENT BOUNDARY?

• Rift Valley
• Mountain
• A delta
• An insanely complex, long answer that you will click out of instinct.