Plate Tectonics

Created by a divergent boundary.

• Rocky Mountains
• Mariana Trench
• Mid Atlantic ridge

Mountains form from ...

• plates sliding past one another
• collision of plates
• plates moving away from each other

During sea floor spreading, molten material rises up from the mantle...

• along the continents
• at the mid ocean ridges
• deep ocean trenches
• at north and south poles

Which of the following is where one plate slides under another plate?

• submarine zone
• divergence zone
• subduction zone
• lower zone

The area around the pacific plate where boundaries form is called...

• death ring
• fire zone
• ring of fire
• zone of fire

Associated with transform boundaries.

• Volcanoes
• mountains
• trenches
• earthquakes

This land formation occurs at a divergent continental/ continental boundary.

• mid ocean ridge
• deep ocean trench
• pacific hot spot
• rift valley

What happens to temperature as you go deeper in the Earth?

• decreases
• increases
• fluctuates
• remains the same

Name the boundary

• convergent boundary
• divergent boundary
• transform boundary
• sergent boundary

What is represented by the picture? 

• Sea-floor spreading
• Pangea
• How the continents are arranged today
• Volcanoes