Plate Tectonics (Gizmo)

Which is NOT a type of plate boundary?

• Transform
• Divergent
• Convergent
• Insurgent

Which type of plate boundary formed the current tallest mountain range on Earth?

• Convergent
• Divergent
• Transform
• Insurgent

Pangea was broken apart at South America and Africa by which type of plate boundary?

• Divergent
• Convergent
• Transform
• Insurgent

California earthquakes are caused by which type of plate boundary movement by the San Andreas Fault?

• Transform
• Convergent
• Divergent
• Insurgent

The crust of Earth is a part of which layer?

• Lithosphere
• Asthenosphere
• Mantle
• Core

Volcanoes form at "hot spots" and near which type of plate boundary?

• Transform
• Divergent
• Convergent: subduction
• Convergent: collision

Which type of plate boundary creates new ocean floor?

• Divergent
• Convergent
• Transform

The Pacific Ring of Fire is a circle of volcanoes all around the edge of the Pacific Ocean.  These volcanoes are formed by ___ boundaries because the Pacific Ocean is slowing shrinking as the Atlantic Ocean is slowly growing.

• Convergent: subduction
• Convergent: collision
• Transform
• Divergent

Japan experiences tsunamis, earthquakes and has volcanoes and deep sea trenches off its shore.  Japan is surrounded by:

• Convergent: collision plate boundaries
• Convergent: subduction plate boundaries

Plate tectonics is based on the mapping of volcanoes and earthquakes, rock layers, topographical features, magnetic patterns in ocean rock and fossil findings.  This sounds like a scientific ___.

• hypothesis
• theory