Plate Tectonics Quiz

What are the three types of plate boundaries?

• Convergent, Divergent, and Transparent
• Convergent, Observant, and Transform
• Convergent, Divergent, and Transform

What did Wegener name the supercontinent that existed 250 million years ago?

• Gondwana
• Laurasia
• Panthalassa
• Pangaea

What type of boundary may result in deep ocean trenches, volcanic islands, and volcanic mountains?

• Divergent
• Convergent
• Transform
• Both Convergent and Divergent

What force is responsible for the movement of plates on the asthenosphere?

• The rotation of the Earth
• Gravity
• Convection currents in the mantle
• Magnetism in the cores

At which plate boundary do only earthquakes occur (no other landforms created)?

• Convergent
• Divergent 
• Transform

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

The process by which molten material adds new oceanic crust to the ocean floor. At the same time, older strips of rock move outward from either side of the ridge

• mid-ocean ridge

• sea-floor spreading

• Mariana trench

• fault lines

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

A break or fracture in the ground that occurs when Earth's tectonic plates move or shift.

• convergent plate boundry

• mid-ocean ridge

• divergent plate boundry

• fault lines

The process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary

• earthquake

• rift valley

• transformation

• subduction

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What type of event will occur at this boundary?

• Earthquake
• Volcano Eruption
• Tornado
• Mountain Building

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

A divergent boundary occurs when plates ....

• Pull apart
• Come together
• Slide past each other
• subducting

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3