Plate Tectonics Quiz

What forms when two oceanic plates move apart?

• Transform boundary

• Mid-oceanic ridge

• Fold mountains

• Subduction zone

What causes the formation of volcanic islands?

• Subduction

• Transform boundary

• Colliding continental plates

• Mid-oceanic ridge

What is the result of two oceanic plates colliding?

• No geological activity

• Subduction zone

• Creation of new oceanic crust

• Formation of fold mountains

What is the process when two low-density continental plates collide?

• Uplift and buckling to form fold mountains

• Formation of volcanic islands

• Subduction

• Creation of new oceanic crust

What geological feature is formed at transform plate boundaries?

• Fault

• Mid-oceanic ridge

• Fold mountains

• Volcanoes

What is the famous fault line in California, USA?

• Mariana Trench

• Himalayan Fault

• San Andreas Fault

• Mid-oceanic ridge

What causes the formation of magma at subduction zones?

• Decrease in overlying pressure

• Increase in overlying pressure

• Water out of the oceanic crust

• Friction along the subducting plate

What is the result of the decrease in overlying pressure at subduction zones?

• Formation of volcanic islands

• Formation of oceanic trench

• Formation of fold mountains

• Formation of mid-oceanic ridge

What causes earthquakes at transform plate boundaries?

• Rising magma

• Subduction

• Uplift and buckling of rocks

• Horizontal sliding of plates

What is the result of the sliding of two blocks of rocks at a fault?

• Formation of volcanic islands

• Formation of mid-oceanic ridge

• Formation of fold mountains

• Earthquakes