Topography & Plate Tectonics

What type of event will occur at this boundary?

• Earthquake
• Volcano Eruption
• Tornado
• Mountain Building

A divergent boundary occurs when plates ....

• Pull apart
• Come together
• Slide past each other
• subducting

Which of the following is the name of the ancient supercontinent formed 28 Million Years ago.

• Pangea
• Gondwanda
• Laurasia
• Neverland

What type of plate boundary is this?

• Transform
• Convergent
• Divergent
• Plate

Oceanic Trenches are formed by _______ plate boundaries

• Convergent
• Transform
• Plate
• Divergent

The theory that says Earth's continents once made up an ancient supercontinent, and have been drifting apart ever since, is called the theory of...

• Pangea
• Plate Tectonics
• Natural Selection
• Gravity

A fault is formed by the movement of a __________ plate boundary

• Transform
• Convergent
• Divergent

Islands can from from magma which is pushed up at a __________ plate boundary

• Divergent
• Convergent
• Transform

How is it possible for new crust to be formed without increasing the surface area of the Earth?

• Crust is destroyed at the same time it is created
• New crust is underwater where it sinks
• New crust breaks more easily than old crust

What type of plate boundary is this?

• Plate
• Divergent
• Convergent
• Transform