Plate Tectonics Quiz

Transform boundaries are found in plates that..

• Move towards each other

• Move away from each other

• Slide past each other

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Tectonic plates that move ____ each other form convergent boundaries.

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Valleys can be found in which tectonic plate boundary

• Convergent

• Transform

• Divergent

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Subsidence can be found in which plate boundary

• Transform

• Divergent

• Convergent

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Plates that slide past each other form which kind of boundary

• Transform

• Divergent

• Convergent

Mountains are created when....

• Two continental plates collide
• Two oceanic plates pull apart
• An Oceanic plate subducts under a Continental Plate
• Two continental plates pull apart

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What are the two types of crust

• continental and oceanic
• ocean and upper
• lower and upper
• pizza and subway

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Transform boundaries are most likely to produce what phenomenon?

• volcanoes
• deep sea trenches
• underwater mountain ranges
• earthquakes

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Which of the following causes Earth's tectonic plates to move?

• Energy from the Sun

• Magnetic Pole Reversal

• Convection currents in the mantle

• Faults in Mountain Ranges

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A divergent boundary occurs when plates ....

• Pull apart

• Come together

• Slide past each other

• subducting

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