Earth Science Review

The area around the Pacific Ocean where lots of earthquakes and volcanoes happen is called the ____________.

• Ring of Earth
• Ring of Fire
• Ring of Stone
• Ring of Diamond

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What type of boundary is shown in the diagram?

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Transform

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What forms at the divergent boundary? 

• deep-ocean trench
• mid-ocean Ridge
• land ridge
• the Pacific Ocean

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What is the term for the process by which a heavier, denser plate slides under a less dense plate?

• plate boundary
• submersion
• accretion
• subduction

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What kind of plate boundary is shown here?

• divergent
• convergent
• transform
• submerged

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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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What type of features are associated with a divergent boundary?

• Rift valleys
• Volcanic mountains
• Fold mountains
• Fault block mountains

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The San Andréa fault in California is one example of a...  

• Divergent boundary
• Convergent boundary
• Transform boundary
• All of the above

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Divergent Plate movement can create

• Convection Currents
• Conduction
• Mountains
• Rifts and ocean ridges

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What forms at a convergent boundary between a continental plate and an oceanic plate?

• volcanoes
• rift valleys
• faults
• mid-ocean ridges

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