Landforms and Plate Boundaries

What landform is created as a result of a convergent plate boundary?

• Glorious mountain ranges

• Ocean ridges

• Volcanic Islands

Which landform is created as a result of a transform plate boundary?

• Glorious Mountain ranges

• Fault lines

• volcanic islands

• ocean ridges

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What landform is a result of divergent plate boundaires?

• Glorious mountain ranges

• mediocre mountain ranges

• fault lines

• volcanic islands

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Earthquakes are a result from any plate boundary moving at all

• True

• False

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We saw that plates have boundaries. What is a common feature along the plate boundaries?

• Earthquakes

• Storms

• Rain

• Tsunamis

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Alfred Wegener proposed which theory explaining Pangaea?

• Rift Theory

• Continental Drift Theory

• Rock Cycle Theory

• Big Bang Theory

A subduction zone is where....

• One denser, older plate subducts and gets pulled under another plate

• The plates drift apart and create volcanic islands

• The mantle convection process takes place

• When two plates slide past each other, creating friction, resulting in earthquakes.

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The dinosaurs rode the pieces of Pangaea like a fun little ride at Disneyland

• True, I wish I could have seen it!

• False, the plates move only centimeters per year!

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___flow is another piece of evidence that tells us the giant ice sheets were once connected to Pangaea

• Glacial

• Cloud

• Water

• Fondue

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What physical process created the Himalayan mountains?

• Convergent boundary between Indian and Eurasian plates

• Volcanoes created the mountains with cooled lava

• Erosion has deposited soil to create the mountains

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