Quiz about Plate Boundaries

Question 1

Two plates come together or collide at what boundary?

Accepted Answer

Convergent

Answer

Divergent

Answer

Transform

Question 2

Two plates spread or move apart at what boundary?

Accepted Answer

Divergent

Answer

Convergent

Answer

Transform

Question 3

Two plates slide past each other at what boundary?

Accepted Answer

Transform

Answer

Covergent

Answer

Divergent

Question 4

New oceanic crust (sea floor) is created at this boundary.

Accepted Answer

Divergent Oceanic

Answer

Divergent Continental

Answer

Convergent Oceanic

Answer

Transform

Question 5

The process where oceanic crust slides under another plate and is melted is called ___________.

Accepted Answer

subduction

Answer

seafloor spreading

Answer

continental drift

Answer

recycling

Question 6

What two crustal features occur near every subduction zone?

Accepted Answer

Volcanoes and Trenches

Answer

Rift Valleys and Mid Ocean Ridges

Answer

Volcanoes and Rift Valleys

Answer

Mid Ocean Ridges and Trenches

Question 7

A divergent boundary on land creates what feature?

Accepted Answer

Rift Valley

Answer

Mid Ocean Ridge

Answer

Subduction Zone

Answer

Deep Ocean Trench

Question 8

A divergent boundary in the ocean creates what feature?

Accepted Answer

Mid Ocean Ridge

Answer

Rift Valley

Answer

Deep Ocean Trench

Answer

Subduction Zone

Question 9

When two continental plates converge (collide) what type of crustal feature is formed?

Accepted Answer

Folded Mountains

Answer

Mid Ocean Ridge

Answer

Subduction Zone

Answer

Rift Valley

Question 10

The process that occurs at a divergent oceanic boundary that creates new crust (sea floor) is called?

Accepted Answer

Seafloor Spreading

Answer

Subduction

Answer

Continental Drift

Answer

Volcanism

Question 11

What is the 'magic' that is happening in the mantle that helps move the 'lithospheric plates'?

Accepted Answer

Convection

Answer

Subduction

Answer

Seafloor Spreading

Question 12

Aside from Earthquakes, what is the only thing you will find at transform boundaries?

Accepted Answer

Fault lines

Answer

Volcanoes

Answer

Subduction Zones

Answer

Folded Mountains

Question 13

What type of plate boundary is this?

Accepted Answer

Transform

Answer

Convergent

Answer

Divergent

Answer

Plate

Question 14

The movement of the tectonic plates is caused by

Accepted Answer

convection currents in the Asthenosphere

Answer

the rotation of the Earth.

Answer

the gravity of the iron-nickel core.

Answer

the Moho discontinuity.

Question 15

___________, meaning "all land," is the name of the great landmass that existed millions of years ago.

Accepted Answer

Pangaea

Answer

lithosphere

Answer

subduction zone

Answer

tectonic

Answer

Wegener

Question 16

A __________ plate is a large slab of crust and upper mantle that moves over the earth's surface.

Accepted Answer

tectonic

Answer

lithosphere

Answer

Pangaea

Answer

subduction zone

Answer

Wegener

Question 17

____________ is the scientist credited with the theory of continental drift (which led to the theory of plate tectonics).

Accepted Answer

Wegener

Answer

lithosphere

Answer

Pangaea

Answer

subduction zone

Answer

tectonic

Question 18

The point where one plate slides beneath another is known as the ______________.

Accepted Answer

subduction zone

Answer

lithosphere

Answer

Pangaea

Answer

tectonic

Answer

Wegener

Question 19

Name the boundary

Accepted Answer

transform boundary

Answer

convergent boundary

Answer

divergent boundary

Answer

sergent boundary

Question 20

Name the boundary

Accepted Answer

convergent boundary

Answer

divergent boundary

Answer

transform boundary

Answer

sergent boundary

Question 21

Mountains are created when....

Accepted Answer

Two continental plates collide

Answer

Two oceanic plates pull apart

Answer

An Oceanic plate subducts under a Continental Plate

Answer

Two continental plates pull apart

Question 22

Which of the following occurs because of convection currents?

Accepted Answer

Tectonic plates on the crust move.

Answer

The mantle increases in size.

Answer

Pressure in the crust increases.

Answer

Pressure in the crust decreases.

Plate Boundaries

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