Earth Systems 7th Grade

Which layer has convection currents?

• Inner Core
• Outer Core
• Mantle
• Crust

Earthquakes and volcanoes are most likely found in which locations?

• At plate boundaries
• in oceans
• in the middle of continents
• in the middle of plates

When one plate sides under neath another, it _________ and the magma _________.

• hardens, sinks
• melts, sinks
• hardens, rises
• melts, rises

The Himalayas in Asia are an example of what type of plate boundary?

• divergent

• convergent building

• convergent subducting

• transform

Transform boundaries are most likely to produce what phenomenon?

• volcanoes
• deep sea trenches
• underwater mountain ranges
• earthquakes

When a plate subducts, what are two formations that can be created?

• ridges, and earthquakes

• trenches, and volcanoes

• mountains and trenches

What is this image...

• Revolving boundary
• San Andreas (Transform)
• Convergent

A mid-ocean ridge occurs at a ________ plate boundary.

• transform
• convergent
• divergent

What type of boundary is the SAN ANDREAS FAULT on?

• Covergent
• Transformers
• Divergent
• Transform

What is the name of the plate boundary that slides past each other?

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Transform

• Subducting