Oceanography Earth Science

Examine the image above. Which of the following is an accurate conclusion that can be drawn from this data

• Age of crust increases as distance from tectonic plates increases

• Age of crust decreases as distance from tectonic plate increases

• Age of crust and distance from tectonic plates are not connected

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Where would you expect the next island in this chain to form?

• to the left of A

• between D and E

• to the right of E

• between A and B

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A mid-ocean ridge forms from ____plates.

• separating

• volcanic

• sliding

• colliding

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____ is when one plate sinks beneath another plate.

• collide

• subduction

• isostasy

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Lava forms islands near the trench of oceanic-oceanic collisions.

• True

• False

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What is a divergent plate boundary?

• where two plates are pulling apart

• where two plates are coming together

• where two plates are moving past one another

• a type of fine china

Answer explanation

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In continental-oceanic convergent boundaries how are volcanoes created and fed?

• Oceanic-continental convergent do not form volcanoes

• the inner core has channels to the volcanoes

• the subducted plate melts and then the magma comes back to surface.

• the sun melts the rock inside the mountain making it a volcano

Answer explanation

as the plate is subducted it goes further into the earth becoming hotter and hotter until it melts and then rises to the surface forming or feeding our volcanoes at convergent boundaries.

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The deepest known point on earth is where?

• In a Vietnamese Super cave, Hang Son Doong

• Challenger Deep, the deepest known point in the Mariana Trench

• The bottom of Death Valley in Nevada

• The bottom of the grand canyon

Answer explanation

Here is a diagram of how deep the mariana trench is.

What two crustal features occur near every subduction zone?

• Volcanoes and Trenches

• Rift Valleys and Mid Ocean Ridges

• Volcanoes and Rift Valleys

• Mid Ocean Ridges and Trenches

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What geologic feature/event would you most likely to find at a divergent boundary between two pieces of continental crust?

• Mid-Ocean Ridge

• Mountain

• Rift Valley

• Island Arc

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