Plate Tectonics Wednesday

What is a feature mostly found in subduction zones?

• Earthquakes

• Trenches

• Volcanoes

• Mountains

Convergent plate boundaries in the ocean usually form...

• Mountains

• Volcanoes

• Trenches

• Nothing

When two continental plates converge they usually form...

• Volcanoes

• Trenches

• Mountains

• Earthquakes

The San Andreas fault is an example of what kind of plate boundary?

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transform

What kind of movement happens along divergent plate boundaries?

• Plates move away from each other

• Plates move towards each other

• Plates slip past each other

What kind of movement happens along convergent plate boundaries?

• Plates move away from each other

• Plates move towards each other

• Plates slip past each other

What kind of movement happens at transform plate boundaries?

• Plates move away from each other

• Plates move towards each other

• Plates slip past each other

Why is oceanic crust subducted underneath continental crust?

• Oceanic crust is more dense

• Oceanic crust is less dense

• It just works that way