Earth's Layers/Plate Tectonics Test Review

Which of the landforms listed below is created at a convergent boundary?

• mountains
• mid-ocean ridge
• seafloor spreading
• rift valley

What landforms are created at divergent plate boundaries?

• mountains
• mid-ocean ridges, rift valley
• deep ocean trench
• subduction

What geological event is MOST common at a transform boundary?

• earthquakes
• deep ocean trenches
• mid-ocean ridge
• mountains

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

What happens to temperature and pressure as you travel deeper into Earth's layers?

• Both temperature and pressure decrease
• Both temperature and pressure increase
• Pressure increases and temperature stays the same
• They do not change

What is the difference between convergent and divergent plate boundaries?

• convergent plates collide & divergent plates slide past each other
• convergent plates collide and divergent plates divide
• both plates have similar movement
• Are they different?

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which plate sinks at a subduction zone?

• continental crust
• both crusts sink
• no crust sinks
• oceanic crusts sink

What is true about the densities of plates that collide at a subduction zone?

• the densities of plates are equal
• The densities of plates are unequal
• The plates are the same
• The masses are very similar

What layers make up the lithosphere?

• Crust and outer core
• Crust and upper mantle
• inner core and outer core
• mantle and core

The _________ floats over the semi-solid _____________________.

• ashthenosphere, lithosphere
• mantle, core
• outer core, crust
• lithosphere, asthenosphere

Plates collide together at a ______________________

• convergent plate boundary

• divergent plate boundary

• transform plate boundary

• all plate boundaries