Plate Boundaries

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 (trail of islands)

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

• Mountains
• Volcanoes
• Mid-Ocean Ridge
• Rift valley

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 valley
• Island Arc (chain of islands)

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

• Volcanos
• Mountains
• Rift valley
• Island Arc (chain of islands)

Which of the following statements is false?

• Oceanic crust is younger than continental crust
• Oceanic crust is thinner than continental crust
• Oceanic crust is less dense than continental crust

What is an example of volcanic arc of islands formed at an ocean/ocean convergent zone?

• Japan
• Haiti
• Hawaii
• Puerto Rico

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

Earthquakes typically occur _________________.

• In the middle of tectonic plates
• only in California
• only in the middle of the ocean
• along plate boundaries

What kind of plate boundary is shown here?

• divergent
• convergent
• transform
• strike slip