Plate boundary Quiz

The San Andreas Fault in California is known as an active earthquake area. What type of boundary is it?

• converging

• diverging

• transform

• sea floor spreading

When two oceanic plate boundaries meet, what crutal feature forms?

• Plate tectonics

• sea floor spreading

• folded mountains

• volcanic island arc

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When an oceanic crust meets a continental crust, what occurs?

• The oceanic crust moves under the continental crust resulting in a volcano

• The oceanic crust moves over the continental crust resulting in volcanoes

• The two crusts converge forming folded mountains such as the Himalayas

• Both crust are subducted down into the mantle.

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What type of boundary is shown in the picture?

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

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What type of boundary is shown in this picture?

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

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What type of boundary is shown in this picture?

• converent

• divergent

• transform

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The speed of a tectonic plate moves per year is best measured in

• kilometers per year

• centimeters per year

• meters per year

• millimeters per year

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The crust and upper mantle form the

• continental crust

• oceanic crust

• lithosphere

• asthenosphere

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What is subduction?

• bending of rocks

• breaking of rocks

• geological process of two plates bouncing on top of each other

• geological process in which one edge of one crustal plate is forced below he edge of another

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A long chain of volcanoes that surround the Pacific Ocean.

• Ring of fire

• ring of life

• pacific volcanoes

• volcanoes pacific

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