TEKS 8.9 B Landforms and Events Caused by Plate Tectonics

The Great Rift Valley in Africa and the Mid-Ocean Ridge were all created by this boundary

• Divergent
• Convergent
• Reform
• Transform

What are the two types of crust

• continental and oceanic
• ocean and upper
• lower and upper
• pizza and subway

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

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

• divergent
• continent-to-continent convergent
• ocean-to-continent convergent
• transform

What is a divergent boundary?

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

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

What forms at a divergent boundary?

• mid-ocean ridges
• very tall mountains
• trenches
• volcanic islands

When the sea floor spreads apart, volcanoes and ridges are formed because

• underwater earthquakes form them
• sediments deposit forming ridges
• less dense magma moves to the surface as the plates pull apart
• ocean water pushes down surrounding sea floor pushing up the ridges

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

• Convergent boundary
• Transform boundary
• Divergent boundry
• Shearing boundary

What kind of plate boundary is shown here?

• divergent
• convergent
• transform
• strike slip