Plate Tectonics

Scientists think that convection currents that move the plates flow in Earth's

• Continental crust

• Oceanic crust

• Asthenosphere

• Lithosphere

Which type of plate boundary would cause mountains to form?

• Transform

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Reform

The Great Rift Valley in Africa and the Mid-Ocean Ridge were all created by this boundary

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Reform

• Transform

What type of plate boundary is this?

• Plate

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Transform

What type of plate boundary is this?

• Transform

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Plate

Where would the oldest rock be found?

• L

• M

• N

• O

Mountains are created when....

• Two continental plates collide

• Two oceanic plates pull apart

• An Oceanic plate subducts under a Continental Plate

• Two continental plates pull apart

Oceanic Trenches are formed by _______ plate boundaries

• Convergent

• Transform

• Plate

• Divergent

The earthquakes experienced in California are related to tectonic plates because these catastrophic events are the result of -

• two tectonic plates sliding past each other.

• tectonic plates melting as they slide into the mantle.

• tectonic plates being weathered over time.

• two tectonic plates pulling away from each other.

Which of the following features is likely to form where two tectonic plates push toward each other?

• Ocean shoreline

• Mountain range

• Mid-ocean ridge

• Rift valley