Chapter 9: Plate Tectonics

What type of plate boundary is this?

• Plate
• Divergent
• Convergent
• Transform

What type of event will occur at this boundary?

• Earthquake
• Volcano Eruption
• Tornado
• Mountain Building

A divergent boundary occurs when plates ....

• Pull apart
• Come together
• Slide past each other
• subducting

Which of the following is the name of the ancient supercontinent formed 28 Million Years ago.

• Pangea
• Gondwanda
• Laurasia
• Neverland

Which of the following is NOT evidence to support the theory of plate tectonics?

• Fossils
• Mountains
• Glaciers
• Sand Erosion

What type of plate boundary is this?

• Transform
• Convergent
• Divergent
• Plate

Mid-ocean ridges are formed by _______ plate boundaries

• Convergent
• Transform
• Plate
• Divergent

A fault is formed by the movement of a __________ plate boundary

• Transform
• Convergent
• Divergent

Islands can form from magma which is pushed up at a __________ plate boundary

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Transform

Large mountains belts such as the Himalayas were created when....

• Two continental plates collide
• Two oceanic plates pull apart
• An Oceanic plate subducts under a Continental Plate
• Two continental plates pull apart