Snack-tonics Post Quiz

Long, narrow depression formed at divergent boundaries between continental plates is called _?_.

• ocean trench
• rift valley
• subduction zone
• folded mountains

What is a subduction zone?

• where plates move into each other
• where plates are moving away form each other
• where plates move past each other
• area where one plate slips under another plate

Which is a possible landform that forms at a divergent boundary?

• mid-ocean ridges
• folded mountains
• trenches
• volcanic islands

The San Andreas Fault in San Francisco is located along what type of boundary?

• convergent boundary
• transform boundary
• divergent boundary

When two plates with continental crust collide at a convergent plate boundary, what will form along the boundary?

• a  deep-sea trench
• folded mountains
• a subduction zone
• new crust

The lithosphere combines what two layers?

• asthenosphere and crust
• crust and upper mantle
• mantle and asthenosphere
• inner and outer core

Oceanic tectonic plates are _?_.

• thin and dense
• mostly made of granite
• thicker and less dense
• mostly broken into small pieces

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

• abyssal plain
• mid-ocean ridge
• volcanic island arc
• the jacuzzi of despair

What would most likely explain the movement of this fence?

• The fence runs across a transform boundary.
• The fence runs across a convergent boundary.
• The fence runs across a divergent boundary.
• The fence runs close to a volcano.

Convection currents in which layer of Earth are responsible for tectonic plate movement?

• lithosphere
• asthenosphere
• mesosphere
• inner core