ES -Plate Tectonics Unit 6

Which type of plate boundary would cause folded mountains to form?

• transform

• convergent

• divergent

What are the two types of crust?

• continental and oceanic

• ocean and basin

Earthquakes and volcanoes are most likely found in which locations?

• at plate boundaries

• in the middle of plates

When one plate slides underneath another, it ____ and the magma _____.

• hardens; sinks

• melts; rises

Transform boundaries (San Andreas) are most likely to produce what phenomenon?

• volcanoes

• deep sea trenches

• earthquakes

When an oceanic plate and a continental plate collide, which one will subduct?

• oceanic

• continental

Two tectonic plates collide at a ___ plate boundary.

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

According to Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift,

• the continents were once joined together in a single landmass

• the continents DO NOT move

What is Pangaea?

• the name of a German scientist

• the name of the super-continent that existed millions of years ago

What type of evidence was NOT used by Alfred Wegener to support his continental drift hypothesis?

• evidence from landforms

• evidence from fossils

• evidence from human remains