APES Geology 4: Plate Tectonics

A divergent boundary occurs when plates ....

• Pull apart
• Come together
• Slide past each other
• subducting

What type of plate boundary is this?

• Transform
• Convergent
• Divergent
• Plate

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?

• Plate
• Divergent
• Convergent
• Transform

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

Which layer of the earth is between the core and the crust?

• Crust
• Mantle
• Outer Core
• Inner Core

Earthquakes and volcanoes are most likely found in which locations?

• At plate boundaries
• in oceans
• in the middle of continents
• in the middle of plates

Which section would see exponential population growth?

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

Use Figure 10-1.  Urban populations increased approximately ____% from 1950 to 2000.

• 3
• 8
• 40
• 68

Compared with a population with low genetic diversity, a genetically diverse population is more likely to include individuals that

• are distributed over a large range
• vary greatly by age
• vary greatly by appearance and behavior
• each carry a large number of genes