SCIENCE 10 QUARTER 1 QUIZ #2

Features found at divergent plate boundaries include ____________.

• A. mid-ocean ridges

• B. deep-sea trenches

• B. deep-sea trenches

• C. crumpled mountains

At the convergent plate boundary, _______________.

• A. new crust is created

• B. the crust separates

• C. the older crust is recycled by subduction

• D. plates side past one another

The boundary between two colliding plates, often associated with mountain building, ocean trenches and volcanic islands.

The region where an oceanic plate sinks down into the asthenosphere at a convergent boundary, between continental and oceanic plates.

Where two plates are moving apart, magma comes up to create new crust.

The highest part of a chain of underwater mountains.

• RIFT VALLEY

• MID-OCEAN RIDGE
• MOUNTAIN

• VOLCANO

A surface feature in the seafloor produced by the descending plate during subduction.

A deep crack in the Earth's surface associated with divergent boundary of two continental plates.

The theory that the lithosphere is divided into tectonic plates that move around on top of the asthenosphere.

Formed by two continental plates colliding and forcing each other upwards.