Landforms and Plate Tectonics

A location where two tectonic plates collide is known as a _________ boundary.

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transform

• Spreading

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What is an earthquake?

• When the earth causes an upward thrust in the epicenter.

• When the earth moves up and down along the ocean floor.

• When tectonic plates slide against each other causing the earth to move. 

• None of the above

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Divergent Plate movement can create

• Convection Currents

• Conduction

• Mountains

• Rifts and ocean ridges

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The scientist who proposed Continental Drift Theory.

• Harry Hess

• Alfred Wegener

• Charles Darwin

• Isaac Newton

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Pangaea was an ancient supercontinent made up of...

• America, Greenland, and Europe

• Antarctica, India, and America

• all of Earth’s continents

• South Africa, India, Australia, and South America

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A tectonic plate is defined as

• large, slow moving pieces of Earth's lithosphere.

• large, slow moving pieces of Earth's asthenosphere.

• large, slow moving pieces of Earth's mesosphere.

• large, slow moving pieces of Earth's outer core.

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Why do folded mountain belts sometimes form at convergent plate boundaries?

• because rock is compressed and forced upward.

• because convergent plate boundaries occur above hot spots.

• because the rock is stretched apart and breaks, which allows magma to rise to Earth's surface.

• because subducted oceanic lithosphere melts and rises as magma to Earth's surface.

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This diagram shows a subduction zone. What type of plate boundary is shown in the image, and what type of landform is likely to occur here?

• divergent boundary; a trench

• convergent boundary; continental volcanic arc

• divergent boundary; island volcanic arc

• convergent boundary; folded mountains

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The diagram shows a type of mountain range that can form at divergent plate boundaries. What type of mountains are shown in the diagram?

• island volcanic arc mountains

• folded mountains

• fault-block mountains

• continental volcanic arc mountains

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A geologist is studying an area after an earthquake. She notices that two streams have changed course. What would most likely explain the movement of the streams?

• The stream runs across a fault in a rift zone where two plates are diverging.

• The stream runs across a hot spot far from any tectonic plate.

• The stream runs across a transform fault that was offset by the earthquake.

• The stream runs across a subduction zone where two plates are converging.

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