Earth's Layers and Plate Tectonics

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

• Divergent
• Convergent
• Reform
• Transform

subduction zones in the ocean can create which features?

• islands
• volcanoes
• earthquakes
• all of the above

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 slides 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
• continent-to-continent convergent
• ocean-to-continent convergent
• transform

Transform boundaries are most likely to produce what phenomenon?

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

When an oceanic plate and a continental plate collide, which one will subduct?

• oceanic
• continental
• neither

Which of the following is NOT a tectonic boundary?

• Convergent
• Divergent
• Sedergent
• Transform

Two tectonic plates collide at a _______ plate boundary.

• convergent
• divergent
• transform

The area where two tectonic plates meet.

• mantle
• focus
• plate boundary
• convection