Plate Tectonics Pre-assessment

Name this boundary

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transform

• Subduction Zone

Name the boundary

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Transform

• Subduction Zone

Name the boundary

• Convergent

• Transform

• Divergent

• Subduction Zone

What was the name given to all the continents when they were joined as one super continent?

• Supreme Continent
• Eurasia
• Plate tectonics
• Pangea

Study the diagram.

Which two plates on the diagram show a divergent boundary?

• The Eurasian and Pacific plates

• The South American and African plates

• The North American and Pacific plates

• The South American and Nazca Plates

The illustration below shows some of Earth's tectonic plates. The arrows indicate the direction in which some of these plates are moving.

Based on the direction of the Cocos Plate, what type of plate boundary likely exists between the Cocos Plate and the Caribbean Plate? (Hint: Step 1. Analyze the likely relative motions of the Caribbean Plate and the Cocos Plate. Step 2. Relate the relative motions of plates to the type of plate boundary.)

• Transform Boundary
• Divergent Boundary
• Convection Boundary
• Convergent Boundary

The San Andreas Fault formed at this type of boundary

• Transform Boundary

• Convergent Boundary

• Divergent Boundary

• Hot Spot

What geologic process formed the Himalayas? 

• two continental plates converging
• an earthquake in a subduction zone
• a tectonic plate moving over a hot spot
• movement at a transform fault boundary

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

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Reform

• Transform

Subduction zones in the ocean can create which features?

• islands

• volcanoes

• earthquakes

• all of the above