Plate Tectonics

Plate Tectonics

Multiple Choice

What is the theory of plate tectonics?

• The plates have never moved

• All of the continents were once together called Pangaea

• The plates are floating on the core

Multiple Choice

What are the two types of plates?

• oceanic and continental

• oceanic and crustal

• continental and sea

• land and sea

Multiple Choice

What does a divergent plate boundary create?

• deltas

• sinkholes

• mountains

• mid ocean ridges

Multiple Choice

What occurs at a subduction zone between an oceanic and continental?

• earthquake

• mountain

• volcano

• sinkhole

Multiple Choice

How are islands created?

• convergent plate boundary

• divergent plate boundary

• transform plate boundary

• convergent plate boundary between continental and continental crust

Multiple Choice

At a convergent plate boundary between continental and oceanic plates which plate subducts under the other?

• continental

• oceanic

• both

• neither