Plate boundaries and Tectonic Forces

What type of plate boundary creates new sea floor?

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Transform

• Subduction

Which crust subducts because it is denser than other crust?

• pizza crust

• oceanic crust

• continental crust

• new crust

What type of landforms would you find near a subduction zone?

• rifts and valley

• mountains and new seafloor

• trenches and volcanoes

• volcanoes and glaciers

The theory that states that pieces of Earth's crust are in constant, slow motion is the theory of...

• continental eruption

• plate boundaries

• plate tectonics

• lithospheric drift

When two continental plates collide, neither one is subducted, and the plates buckle and fold.

• Transform

• Subduction

• Collision

• Divergent

A fracture in earth's crust is a

• tsunami

• fault

• Ring of Fire

• epicenter

Tectonic stress that squeezes rocks together,

• compression

• tension

• adhesion

• delusion

Occur when opposing forces cause rock to break and move horizontally.

• strike slip fault

• normal fault

• reverse fault

• boundary fault

_______force stretch or pull rock layers from opposite directions. It is the opposite of compression.

• compression

• tension

• shearing

• none of the above

________ forces make rock layers slide past each other.

• tension

• shearing

• compression

• none of the above