Plate Tectonics

True or False: The Plate Tectonics Theory States that pieces of the Earth's lithosphere are in constant motion, driven by convection currents in the mantle.

• True

• False

A section of the lithosphere that slowly moves over the asthenosphere, carrying pieces of continental and oceanic crust.

• Plate Boundary

• Tectonic Plate

• Seafloor

What type of plate boundaries can earthquakes occur at?

• Divergent Boundaries

• Convergent Boundaries

• Transform Boundaries

What type of plate boundary is shown in this picture?

• Convergent Boundary

• Transform Boundary

• Divergent Boundary

What type of Plate Boundary takes place where two plates move away from each other?

• Transform Boundary

• Convergent Boundary

• Divergent Boundary

What type of plate boundary is shown by two plate slide past each other?

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transform

True or False: Continent-Continent Collisions at Convergent Boundaries cause Mountains to form

• False

• True

What is the name of the belt of volcanoes that rims the pacific ocean?

True or False: Ocean-Ocean collisions on Convergent Boundaries cause trenches to form in the ocean floor

• True

• False

Volcanoes can be formed by which of the following processes? (select all that apply)

• Subduction

• Rifting

• Earthquakes

• Hot Spots