Quiz on Plate Boundaries

What type of boundary is this?

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

New crust forms along a(n)

• subduction zone

• divergent boundary

• convergent boundary

• transform boundary

The outermost, rigid layer of the earth, consisting of the earth's crust and upper part of the mantle is known as the ________________.

• lithosphere

• Pangaea

• subduction zone

• tectonic

• Wegener

Oceanic crust (sea floor) is destroyed at this boundary.

• Convergent Oceanic

• Divergent Oceanic

• Convergent Continental-Continental

• Divergent Continental

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

• seafloor spreading

• subduction

• continental drift

• recycling

What two crustal features occur near every subduction zone?

• Volcanoes and Trenches

• Rift Valleys and Mid Ocean Ridges

• Volcanoes and Rift Valleys

• Mid Ocean Ridges and Trenches

A divergent boundary in the ocean creates what feature?

• Mid Ocean Ridge

• Rift Valley

• Deep Ocean Trench

• Subduction Zone

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

• Mid Ocean Ridge

• Subduction Zone

• Rift Valley

• Folded Mountains

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

• Convection

• Subduction

• Seafloor Spreading

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

• Volcanoes

• Subduction Zones

• Folded Mountains

• Fault lines