Convergent Boundaries

Why did the oceanic plate subduct?

• Less dense
• More dense
• Heavier
• Thinner

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Why did the continental plate get volcanoes?

• It is made of thicker continental crust
• It gets stuck and folds
• It has a subducted plate under it that melts
• It is more dense

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Why do volcanes form?

• From plate(s) getting stuck, pushed further, and folding
• From a plate subducting, melting, & rising
• From one plate being more dense & sinking creating a low spot
• All answers

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What type of plates are colliding?

• 2 oceanic plates
• Oceanic and continental plate
• 2 continental plates

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What type of boundary is this?

• Divergent
• Convergent
• Transform Fault

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What type of plates are colliding?

• 2 oceanic plates
• Oceanic and continental plate
• 2 continental plates

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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

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A subduction zone is formed...

• when the oceanic crust sinks below the continental crust

• at every type of convergent plate boundary

• at every type of divergent plate boundary

• at transform boundaries

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The process by which one plate is forced under another

• Radiation

• Convection

• Conduction

• Subduction

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Plates move towards one another at ______________ boundaries.

• divergent
• convergent
• transform
• detergent

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