Quiz: tectonic plates

What is the name that Wegener gave the supercontinent?

• Pangaea

• Paris

• Landmass

• Eurasia

What is the name for a vast underwater mountain chain?

• mountain chain

• mid-ocean ridge

• sea floor spreading

• continental crust

The crust is made of 2 different layers. Which of these are the 2 layers?

• inner core and outer core

• upper mantle and lower mantle

• oceanic and continental

• volcano and earthquake

The Himalayan Mountains were formed as a result of tectonic plates pushing up against each other, forming this type of boundary.

• divergent

• convergent

• transform

• trench

What type of plate boundary is this?

• Plate
• Divergent
• Convergent
• Transform

A divergent boundary occurs when plates ....

• Pull apart
• Come together
• Slide past each other
• subducting

What type of plate boundary is this?

• Transform
• Convergent
• Divergent
• Plate

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

What are the two types of crust

• continental and oceanic

• ocean and upper

• lower and upper

• pizza and subway

Which type of plate boundary is shown at A?

• transform boundary
• convergent boundary
• divergent boundary
• fractured boundary