Earth Movements and Major Landforms

What landform could form if 2 tectonic plates collide?

• highway damage

• river bank deposition

• mountain

• flood plains

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What question might a scientist need to ask when monitoring Tsunamis?

• How high was the tallest tsunami?

• How many people live in the coastal area?

• How many tsunamis have affected the coastal area?

• How can large movements be detected from far away?

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All landforms occur in which layer of the Earth?

• tectonic plates

• the mantle

• magma

• the crust

Cliffs near ocean waters most likely formed from

• erosion

• weathering

• deposition

• sedimentation

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When an oceanic plate is subducted under a continental plate, a deep valley is formed in the ocean. What is this valley called? 

• a trench

• a rift zone

• ocean spreading ridge

• Continental crust

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Students are demonstrating plate tectonic motion by moving graham crackers over icing. If the students were to push two graham crackers towards each other, one of which was made less dense by dipping in water, which landform have they represented and at which location on the diagram would this be found?

• trenches at location 3

• subduction zones at location 4

• Ocean basin volcanoes at location 2

• Fault lines at location 3

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There are several different types of land features on Earth formed from different processes. Which natural land feature was formed at a divergent boundary?

• Appalachian Mountains

• Africa's Rift Valley

• San Madrid Fault

• Florida Keys

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A __________ forms where plates diverge on land.

• rift valley

• mid-ocean ridge

• mountain

• trench

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This landform can occur at a divergent plate boundary.

• ocean trench

• mid-ocean ridge

• tall mountains

• transform fault

Match the boundary to the landform.

• Ridge

• Converging of Continental-Oceanic.

• Trench

• Diverging of Oceanic-Oceanic.

• Mountain

• Converging of Continental-Continental.

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