Plate Tectonics and Pangea

Which type of plate boundary would cause mountains to form?

• Transform

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Reform

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

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Reform

• Transform

Scientists think that convection currents that move the plates flow in Earth's

• Continental crust

• Oceanic crust

• Asthenosphere

• Lithosphere

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.

What type of plate boundary is this?

• Plate

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Transform

What type of plate boundary is this?

• Transform

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Plate

Where would the oldest rock be found?

• L

• M

• N

• O

Mountains are created when....

• Two continental plates collide

• Two oceanic plates pull apart

• An Oceanic plate subducts under a Continental Plate

• Two continental plates pull apart

Oceanic Trenches are formed by _______ plate boundaries

• Convergent

• Transform

• Plate

• Divergent

Which type of Crustal Features below are created from a Convergent boundary? (Select more than one)

• Ocean Trench

• Mountain

• Volcano

• Rit Valley

• Fault Line