Plate Boundaries

When two tectonic plates are moving away from each other, the boundary between them is called...

• Divergent boundary

• Convergent boundary

• Transform boundary

• Subduction

When two tectonic plates are moving toward each other, the boundary between them is called...

• Divergent boundary

• Convergent boundary

• Transform boundary

• Subduction

When two tectonic plates slide past each other, neither crashing together, nor pulling apart, the boundary between them is called...

• Divergent boundary

• Convergent boundary

• Transform boundary

• Subduction

When a continental plate is pulled away from another continental plate, the area of crust that is thinned and pulled apart is called. 

• a trench

• a rift zone or rift valley

• ocean spreading ridge

• Continental crust

When convergent plates collide, if both plates are pushed upward, this forms.  

• Fissures

• Mountain Ranges

• Volcanoes

• Rock Cycle

New oceanic crust (sea floor) is created at this boundary.

• Divergent Oceanic

• Divergent Continental

• Convergent Oceanic

• Transform

Oceanic crust (sea floor) is destroyed at this boundary.

• Convergent Oceanic

• Divergent Oceanic

• Convergent Continental-Continental

• Divergent Continental

The process where oceanic crust slides under another plate and is melted is called ___________.

• seafloor spreading

• subduction

• continental drift

• recycling

If an earthquake occurs at the bottom of the ocean floor what could form as result?

• Volcano

• Tsumani

• Tidal Wave

• Hurricane

What type of landform occurs at a divergent boundary between two continental plates?

• seafloor spreading

• rift valley

• earthquake

• mountain range