LIthosphere Review

Where do most earthquakes and volcanoes occur?

• in the ocean
• along the coast
• along fault lines
• in the Arctic

At an oceanic-oceanic divergent boundary, ____.

• new crust is created
• old crust is deformed or fractured
• plates side past one another
• old crust is recycled by subduction

Continental-continental plate collisions produce ____.

• very tall mountain ranges
• deep-sea trenches
• rift valleys
• island arcs

Crust is neither destroyed nor formed along which of the following boundaries?

• convergent
• magnetic
• divergent
• transform

The driving forces of tectonic plates are related to convection currents in Earth’s ____.

• crust
• inner core
• mantle
• outer core

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Volcanism that occurs around the Pacific Ocean is referred to as ____.

• the Mediterranean Belt
• the Ring of Fire
• a hot spot
• rift volcanism

A tsunami is generated after an underwater _________.

• volcano
• earthquake
• hurricane
• pressure change

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

The type of plate boundary where plates moves apart?

• Divergent
• Convergent
• Transform

Type of plate boundary where plates moves together (towards each other)?

• Divergent
• Convergent
• Transform 

Continuous changing and remaking of rocks is the 

• water cycle
• earth cycle
• rock cycle
• lithosphere cycle