6th Earth Science Unit 5 Forces Shaping Earth's Surface

Which formation is a result of a hot spot?

• the Hawaiian islands

• the San Andreas fault

• Mount St. Helens

• The Mid-Atlantic Ridge

What occurs at transform boundaries?

• earthquakes

• trenches

• folding

• eruption of hot spots

Where are earthquakes and volcanos most likely to occur?

• divergent plate boundaries

• hot spots

• convergent plate boundaries

• within oceanic plates

The Andes Mountains are found along the western coast of South America.

Which kind of plate boundary is responsible for this mountain range?

• The Nazca plate is converging with the South American plate.

• The North American plate is diverging with the South American plate.

• The North American plate and the South American plate are at a transform boundary.

• The Nazca plate and the North American plate are at a transform boundary.

What formed as a result of plates sliding past one another?

• the Hawaiian islands

• the San Andreas fault

• Mount St. Helens

• The Mid-Atlantic Ridge

What was formed when the Pacific and North American plates converged?

• the Hawaiian islands

• the San Andreas fault

• Mount St. Helens

• The Mid-Atlantic Ridge

What has formed as a result of diverging plates?

• the Hawaiian islands

• the San Andreas fault

• Mount St. Helens

• The Mid-Atlantic Ridge

Which plate boundary could form a mountain chain of sedimentary rock?

• divergent boundary of oceanic crust and continental crust

• convergent boundary of two continental crusts

• convergent boundary of oceanic crust and continental crust

• divergent boundary between two oceanic crusts

Which type of stress results when two tectonic plates diverge?

• compression

• shear

• force

• tension

Which plate will feel stress in the form of compression?

• oceanic plates diverging

• oceanic and continental plates at a transform boundary

• a central fault in a continental plate

• an oceanic and continental plate converging