PHMS Plate Tectonics

Which type of plate boundary would cause mountains to form?

• Transform

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Reform

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This layer of Earth is solid Iron and Nickel

• Outer Core
• Mantle
• Inner Core
• Crust

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What are the two types of crust

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

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Which layer has convection currents?

• Inner Core
• Outer Core
• Mantle
• Crust

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

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This landform can occur at a divergent plate boundary.

• ocean trench
• mid-ocean ridge
• tall mountains
• transform fault