20 questions
The North American plate and Pacific plates meet at the San Andres Fault in California causing frequent earthquakes. This fault is located at a _____ boundary.
Ridge
Divergent
Convergent
Transform
Which oceanic plate in the above picture must be more dense? LEFT RIGHT
The plate on the left (the plate with the volcano on it)
The plate on the right (without the volcano)
Which TWO landforms occur when a continental plate and an oceanic plate hit each other?
Volcanoes on land and Volcanic Islands
Volcanoes on land and Deep Sea Trench
Volcanoes on land and Mountains
Rift Valley and Mid Ocean Ridge
How do most mountains form?
Continents collide and fold up on each other
Earth is shrinking and the crust wrinkles up
Ocean plates diverge and fold up on each other
Gravity from the moon pulls sections of the Earth up
What kind of landform is created when a continent starts to get torn apart?
Volcanic Island
Deep Sea Trench
Mid-ocean Ridge
Rift Valley
Mountains
Plates are not created or destroyed: They just pass by each other.
Converge
Diverge
Transform
This is where new material is added on to plates.
Converge
Diverge
Transform
This is where plate material may be destroyed (or recycled) and returned to the mantle.
Converge
Diverge
Transform
What forms when two CONTINENTAL plates CONVERGE?
Rift Valley
Mid Ocean Ridge
Mountains
Volcanoes on land and ocean trench
What are these plates doing?
Diverging
Converging
Forming a transform boundary
Study this diagram carefully, noticing the direction of the arrows.The green bars are tectonic plates.What will happen at the place where the star is drawn on this diagram?
The plates will slide past each other (causing a major earthquake)
The plates will hit each other (one will subduct)
The plates will diverge (spread apart)
What are these plates doing?
Converging
Diverging
Forming a transform boundary
What are these plates doing?
Converging
Diverging
Forming a transform boundary
What type of event will occur at this boundary?
Earthquake
Volcano Eruption
Tornado
Mountain Building
A divergent boundary occurs when plates ....
Pull apart
Come together
Slide past each other
subducting
The Great Rift Valley in Africa and the Mid-Ocean Ridge were all created by this boundary
Divergent
Convergent
Reform
Transform
What geologic process formed the Himalayas?
two continental plates converging
an earthquake in a subduction zone
a tectonic plate moving over a hot spot
movement at a transform fault boundary
The type of plate boundary where two plates come together is a .....
Convergent Boundary
Divergent Boundary
Transform Boundary
Plate Boundary
A place where two plates slip past each other, moving in opposite directions, is known as a _______
transform boundary
divergent boundary.
convergent boundary.
rift valley.