Plate Tectonics

Which type of plate boundary would cause mountains to form?

• Transform

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Reform

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

• Divergent
• Convergent
• Reform
• Transform

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

• oceanic
• continental
• neither

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Transform boundaries are most likely to produce what phenomenon?

• volcanoes
• deep sea trenches
• underwater mountain ranges
• earthquakes

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The area where two tectonic plates meet.

• mantle
• focus
• plate boundary
• convection

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A mid-ocean ridge occurs at a ________ plate boundary.

• transform
• convergent
• divergent

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What is the name of the plate boundary that slides past each other?

• Divergent
• Convergent
• Transform
• Mr. C the Slide Man

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Which of these events can ONLY happen on a DIVERGENT BOUNDARY?

• Rift Valley
• Mountain
• A peninsula
• An Insanely complex, long answer that you will click out of instinct. 

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What type of rock does the ocean floor consist of?

• Granite

• Quartz

• Basalt

• Sandstone