Quiz about Plate Boundaries/Plate Tectonics Review 2025

Question 1

What type of boundary forms a rift valley?

Accepted Answer

divergent

Answer

convergent

Answer

transform

Question 2

What type of boundary forms a Volcanic Arc of islands?

Accepted Answer

convergent

Answer

divergent

Answer

transform

Question 3

What type of boundary forms a mid-ocean ridge?

Accepted Answer

divergent

Answer

convergent

Answer

transform

Question 4

What boundary forms folded mountains?

Accepted Answer

convergent

Answer

divergent

Answer

transform

Question 5

What boundary forms a subduction zone, volcano, or deep ocean trench?

Accepted Answer

convergent

Answer

divergent

Answer

transform

Question 6

What boundary forms a fault?

Accepted Answer

transform

Answer

convergent

Answer

divergent

Question 7

What forms at a divergent, continental to continental boundary?

Accepted Answer

rift valley

Answer

mid-ocean ridge

Answer

mountain

Answer

fault

Question 8

At what boundary will you find a fault?

Accepted Answer

transform

Answer

convergent

Answer

divergent

Question 9

At what type of boundary will subduction occur?

Accepted Answer

convergent

Answer

divergent

Answer

transform

Question 10

At what type of boundary will a trench or deep ocean trench form?

Accepted Answer

convergent

Answer

divergent

Answer

transform

Question 11

What type of boundary is associated with oceanic to oceanic plates forming a mid-ocean ridge?

Accepted Answer

divergent

Answer

convergent

Answer

transform

Question 12

What type of boundary is associated with an oceanic to oceanic plate boundary that forms a rift valley?

Accepted Answer

divergent

Answer

convergent

Answer

transform

Question 13

At what type of boundary will a fault form?

Accepted Answer

transform

Answer

convergent

Answer

divergent

Question 14

At what type of boundary do plates subduct forming a volcanic island?

Accepted Answer

convergent

Answer

divergent

Answer

transform

Question 15

The theory that all continents were once joined as one and have since moved apart.

Accepted Answer

Continental Drift

Answer

Rift

Answer

Plate Tectonics

Answer

Sea-Floor Spreading

Question 16

An underwater mountain system running through Earth's oceans.

Accepted Answer

mid-ocean ridge

Answer

rift valley

Answer

volcanic arc

Answer

rift-ocean ridge

Question 17

The process in which new oceanic crust forms from magma rising at mid-ocean ridges.

Accepted Answer

sea-floor spreading

Answer

subduction

Answer

volcanic magma production

Answer

rift-floor spreading

Question 18

The area where subduction occurs.

Accepted Answer

oceanic-continental convergent

Answer

oceanic - oceanic convergent

Answer

continental-continental convergent

Answer

oceanic-continental divergent

Question 19

At what boundary does a volcanic island arc occur?

Accepted Answer

oceanic-oceanic convergent

Answer

oceanic-oceanic divergent

Answer

oceanic-continental convergent

Answer

oceanic-continental divergent

Question 20

At what boundary does a rift valley form?

Accepted Answer

continental-continental divergent

Answer

continental-continental convergent

Answer

continental-oceanic divergent

Answer

continental-oceanic convergent

Question 21

At what boundary does sea-floor spreading occur?

Accepted Answer

oceanic-oceanic divergent

Answer

oceanic-oceanic convergent

Answer

oceanic-continental convergent

Answer

continental-oceanic divergent

Question 22

At what boundary does a fault form?

Accepted Answer

continental-continental transform

Answer

continental-continental divergent

Answer

continental-continental convergent

Answer

oceanic-oceanic transform

Question 23

At what boundary does a folded mountain form?

Accepted Answer

continental-continental convergent

Answer

oceanic-continental convergent

Answer

oceanic-oceanic convergent

Answer

continental-continental divergent

Question 24

When converging oceanic-oceanic plates meet what happens?

Accepted Answer

subduction

Accepted Answer

volcanic island arc forms

Answer

sea-floor spreading

Answer

volcano forms

Question 25

Which subducts at converging oceanic-oceanic plates?

Accepted Answer

older, more dense oceanic plate

Answer

younger, less dense oceanic plate

Answer

neither, a volcano forms

Answer

they are equally dense and a volcanic mountain forms

Question 26

At what boundary does a volcanic mountain range form?

Accepted Answer

oceanic-continental convergent

Answer

oceanic-continental divergent

Answer

oceanic-continental transform

Answer

oceanic-oceanic convergent

Question 27

What happens to the rocks that are formed at the mid-ocean ridge as they move closer and closer to the continents?

Accepted Answer

The rocks get older as they get closer to the continent.

Answer

The rocks iron content increases.

Answer

The rocks have a higher basalt content.

Answer

The rocks don't change in any way.

Question 28

What happens at a mid-ocean ridge?

Accepted Answer

volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, ridge push

Answer

earthquakes, ridge push

Answer

ridge push

Answer

ridge push, volcanic eruptions

Question 29

What is ridge push?

Accepted Answer

Hot magma rises at the mid-ocean ridge, gravity pulls the cooling lava down, it pushes the older crust away

Answer

two tectonic plates pull apart

Answer

two tectonic plates pull apart and earthquakes happen

Answer

hot magma rises at the rift valley, a mountain forms, magma pushes the older crust away

Question 30

For what reason would Florida not have earthquakes or only have one as an oddity?

Accepted Answer

Florida has a stable geological structure and is not near tectonic plate boundaries.

Answer

Florida is located on a tectonic plate boundary.

Answer

Florida experiences frequent volcanic activity.

Answer

Florida has a history of major earthquakes.

Question 31

What does a theory do?

Accepted Answer

A theory explains phenomena and predicts outcomes.

Answer

A theory provides random information.

Answer

A theory is a guess without evidence.

Answer

A theory only describes past events.

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