Plate Tectonic Webquest- Test Your Knowledge

What do you call the border between 2 tectonic plates?

• boundary

• collision zone

• rift

• trench

What leads to the creation of Island Arcs?

• Collision of Oceanic and Continental Plate

• Collision of Oceanic and Oceanic Plate

• Collision of Continental and Continental Plate

• All the these plate boundaries

Name this tectonic plate

• Cocos plate

• Nazca plate

• Scotia plate

• South American Plate

What is NOT likely to happen at a divergent boundary?

• Mountain Formation

• Rift Valley

• Volcano formation

• Seafloor Spreading

Which of the following geological events can occur at a transform boundary?

• Earthquakes

• mountain formation

• rift formation

• volcanic eruption

Which of the Earth's layers is broken into several tectonic plates?

• Crust

• Outer Core

• Asthenosphere

• Lithosphere

What kind of boundary runs across Iceland?

• Nordic boundary

• Transform boundary

• Divergent boundary

• Convergent boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Mountain Formation can result when which of the following occurs

• Two oceanic plates collide

• Two continental plates collide

• Two oceanic plates spread apart

• None of the above

The tectonic plates float on this semi-solid layer

• Crust

• Inner Core

• Lithosphere

• Asthenosphere

Mid Ocean Ridges are places on Earth where tectonics plates are doing what?

• Colliding

• Sliding past each other

• Spreading apart

• None of the above