Plate Tectonics

What type of plate boundary is this?

• Plate
• Divergent
• Convergent
• Transform

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What type of event will occur at this boundary?

• Earthquake
• Volcano Eruption
• Tornado
• Mountain Building

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A fault is formed by the movement of a __________ plate boundary

• Transform
• Convergent
• Divergent

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Where would the oldest rock be found?

• L
• M
• N
• O

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How is it possible for new crust to be formed without increasing the surface area of the Earth?

• Crust is destroyed at the same time it is created
• New crust is underwater where it sinks
• New crust breaks more easily than old crust

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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

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The Great Rift Valley in Africa and the Mid-Ocean Ridge were all created by this boundary

• Divergent
• Convergent
• Reform
• Transform

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What are the two types of crust

• continental and oceanic
• ocean and upper
• lower and upper
• pizza and subway

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subduction zones in the ocean can create which features?

• islands
• volcanoes
• earthquakes
• all of the above

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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

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