Regents Plate Tectonics

Which type of plate boundary would cause mountains to form?

• Transform

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Reform

This layer of Earth is solid Iron and Nickel

• Outer Core
• Mantle
• Inner Core
• Crust

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

• Divergent
• Convergent
• Reform
• Transform

This layer of Earth is the thickest part

• crust
• outer core
• mantle
• inner core

What are the two types of crust

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

Which layer has convection currents?

• Inner Core
• Outer Core
• Mantle
• Crust

subduction zones in the ocean can create which features?

• islands
• volcanoes
• earthquakes
• all of the above

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

When one plate sides under neath another, it _________ and the magma _________.

• hardens, sinks
• melts, sinks
• hardens, rises
• melts, rises

The Himalayas in Asia are an example of what type of plate boundary?

• divergent
• continent-to-continent convergent
• ocean-to-continent convergent
• transform