Plate Boundaries

What would you be most likely to find at a transform boundary?

• Earthquakes
• Volcanoes
• Mountains
• Rift

What would you be most likely to find at a convergent boundary between two pieces of oceanic crust?

• Mountains
• Rift
• Mid-Ocean Ridge
• Island Arc

What would you be most likely to find at a convergent boundary between a continental and oceanic plate?

• Mountains
• Volcanoes
• Mid-Ocean Ridge
• Rift

What would you be most likely to find at a divergent boundary between two pieces of oceanic crust?

• Rift
• Mid-Ocean Ridge
• Island Arc
• Flat land

What would you be most likely to find at a divergent boundary between two pieces of continental crust?

• Mid-Ocean Ridge
• Mountain
• Rift
• Island Arc

What would you be most likely to find at a convergent boundary between two pieces of continental crust?

• Volcano
• Mountain
• Rift
• Island Arc

Which of the following statements is false?

• Oceanic crust is made of basalt
• Oceanic crust is thinner than continental crust
• Oceanic crust is less dense than continental crust
• Oceanic crust is younger than continental crust

A subduction zone is formed...

• when one tectonic plate sinks below another
• at every type of convergent plate boundary
• at every type of divergent plate boundary
• at transform boundaries

Which of the following words/phrases would correctly fill in the blank?
Continental Drift and Sea-floor spreading were combined into the new more recent theory of ___________.

• Hess
• Pangaea
• Plate Tectonics
• Wegener

A. Wegener believed that all the continents were connected at one time.  What did he call this one large land mass?

• Pancakes
• Pangaea
• Pancreas
• Patches