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- 1. Multiple Choice
What boundary does this picture show?
Divergent
Transform
Convergent
- 2. Multiple Choice
What boundary does the picture show?
Transfrom
Divergent
Convergent
- 3. Multiple Choice
What landforms will occur at a divergent boundary?
mid ocean ridge
mountain
deep ocean trenches
rift valley
- 4. Multiple Choice
What boundary does this picture show?
Convergent
Divergent
Transform
- 5. Multiple Choice
What drives the movements of Earth's plates?
Convection currents in the mantle
Earth's rotation
sea floor spreading
subduction
- 6. Multiple Choice
The process by which the ocean floor sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle is known as _______
convection.
continental drift.
subduction.
conduction.
- 7. Multiple Choice
The geological theory of _______ states that pieces of Earth’s lithosphere are in constant, slow motion.
subduction
plate tectonics
deep-ocean trenches
sea-floor spreading
- 8. Multiple Choice
The San Andreas Fault in California is known as an active earthquake area. What type of boundary is it?
Converging
Diverging
Transform
Sea Floor Spreading
- 9. Multiple ChoiceWhat are the two types of crustcontinental and oceanicocean and upperlower and upperpizza and subway
- 10. Multiple Choice
The Himalayas in Asia are an example of what type of plate boundary?
divergent
continental-continental convergent
oceanic-continental convergent
transform
- 11. Multiple ChoiceWhat is Pangaea?the name of a German scientistthe name of the super-continent that existed millions of years agoanother name for continental driftthe name of an ancient fossil
- 12. Multiple Choice
New crust forms along a(n)
subduction zone
divergent boundary
convergent boundary
transform boundary
- 13. Multiple Choice
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
- 14. Multiple Choice
A divergent boundary on land creates what feature?
Mid Ocean Ridge
Rift Valley
Subduction Zone
Deep Ocean Trench
- 15. Multiple Choice
When two continental plates converge (collide) what type of crustal feature is formed?
Mid Ocean Ridge
Subduction Zone
Rift Valley
Folded Mountains
- 16. Multiple Choice
The process that occurs at a divergent oceanic boundary that creates new crust is called?
Subduction
Seafloor Spreading
Continental Drift
Volcanism
- 17. Multiple Choice
These are NOT plate boundary features. They are areas where hot mantle plumes push up through the lithospheric plates to create volcanic islands such as Hawaii.
Hotspots
Convergent Boundary
Divergent Boundary
Transform Boundary
- 18. Multiple Choice
What type of boundaries are highlighted from this picture?
Convergent Boundary
Divergent Boundary
Transform Boundary
- 19. Multiple Choice
What type of plate boundary is shown in the picture?
Continental-Continental Convergent boundary
Continental-Oceanic Convergent boundary
Continental-Continental divergent boundary
Continental-Oceanic divergent boundary
Oceanic- Oceanic divergent boundary
- 20. Multiple Choice
What type of plate boundary is shown in the image above?
Continental-Continental Convergent boundary
Continental-Oceanic Convergent boundary
Continental-Continental divergent boundary
Continental-Oceanic divergent boundary
Oceanic- Oceanic divergent boundary
- 21. Multiple Choice
What type of plate boundary is shown in the image above?
Continental-Continental Convergent boundary
Oceanic- Oceanic Convergent boundary
Continental-Continental divergent boundary
Continental-Oceanic divergent boundary
Oceanic- Oceanic divergent boundary
- 22. Multiple Choice
What type of plate boundary is shown in the image above?
Continental-Oceanic Convergent boundary
Oceanic- Oceanic Convergent boundary
Continental-Continental divergent boundary
Continental-Oceanic divergent boundary
Transform boundary
- 23. Multiple Choice
Which theory states that over the past 200 million years land has traveled from a large landmass called pangea to their present location?
The Theory of Alfred Wagner
The Theory of Exploration
The Theory of Plate Tectonics
The Theory of Continental Drift
- 24. Multiple Choice
Mid-Ocean Ridges are places where tectonic plates are doing what?
colliding
sliding past each other
spreading apart
sub-ducting
- 25. Multiple Choice
Which of the following geology evens can occur at a transform boundary?
Earthquakes
Mountain formation
Volcanic eruptions
Rift formation
- 26. Multiple Choice
What leads to the creation of island arcs?
Collision of two oceanic plates
Collision of two continental plates
collision of a continental and an oceanic plate
All of the above
- 27. Multiple Choice
Which of these statements is correct?
Continental crusts are thicker than oceanic crusts.
Continental crusts are thinner that oceanic crust.
Continental and oceanic crusts have the same thickness.
- 28. Multiple Choice
One plate is forced under another in a(n) _____.
mid-ocean ridge
asthenosphere
subduction zone
continental drift
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