Plate Tectonics

Which type of plate boundary would cause mountains to form?

• Transform

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Reform

What are the two types of crust

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

Transform boundaries are most likely to produce what phenomenon?

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

Which of the following is NOT a tectonic boundary?

• Convergent
• Divergent
• Sedergent
• Transform

Most volcanoes and earthquakes occur...

• along the coast
• along tectonic plate boundaries
• in the Arctic
• in the ocean

Which of the following occurs because of convection currents?

• Tectonic plates on the crust move.
• The mantle increases in size.
• Pressure in the crust increases.
• Pressure in the crust decreases.

The mantle of Earth is made partly of magma. When magma rises and sinks, this is called ______________. 

• a conduction current
• a hot spot
• a volcanic eruption
• a convection current

Where does the heat come from that drives this convection current in the mantle? 

• The sun
• The crust
• the mantle
• the core

Mountains form from ...

• plates sliding past one another
• collision of plates
• plates moving away from each other

Which of the following is where one plate slides under another plate?

• submarine zone
• divergence zone
• subduction zone
• lower zone