8th Grade Tectonic Plate Review

What would you be most likely to find at a transform boundary?

• Earthquakes
• Volcanoes
• Mountains
• Rift

What would you be most likely to find at a divergent boundary between two pieces of oceanic crust?

• Rift
• Mid-Ocean Ridge
• Island Arc
• Flat land

What would you be most likely to find at a convergent boundary between two pieces of continental crust?

• Volcano
• Mountain
• Rift
• Island Arc

Which of the following statements is false?

• Oceanic crust is made of basalt
• Oceanic crust is thinner than continental crust
• Oceanic crust is less dense than continental crust
• Oceanic crust is younger than continental crust

A subduction zone is formed...

• when one tectonic plate sinks below another
• at every type of convergent plate boundary
• at every type of divergent plate boundary
• at transform boundaries

The area where two or more plates meet is called a __________________.

• fault
• plate boundary
• plate edge
• ring of fire

What kind of plate boundary is shown here?

• divergent
• convergent
• transform
• subducting

What kind of plate boundary is shown here?

• divergent
• convergent
• transform
• submergent

Plate movement is caused by ______________.

• the rotation of the Earth
• ocean tides
• convection currents in the mantle
• the moon's gravity

What kind of plate boundary is shown here?

• divergent
• convergent
• transform
• strike slip