Weather and Plate Tectonics

Use the diagram to answer the question. What results as the two oceanic plates converge?

• formation of a deep sea trench and island volcanoes

• earthquake activity and appearance of a transform fault

• volcanic eruption along both oceanic plate edges

• formation of a continental mountain range

A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other is called

• Divergent Boundary
• Convergent Boundary
• Transform Boundary
• Subduction

A Plate Boundary where two plates move toward each other is called

• Convergent Boundary
• Divergent Boundary
• Transform Boundary
• Subduction

Convergent Plate Movement can create

• Rifts
• Mountains
• Ocean Ridges
• Radiation

Divergent Plate movement can create

• Convection Currents
• Conduction
• Mountains
• Rifts and ocean ridges

When pressure builds between two tectonic plates, it can suddenly release causing a (an) ______________________

• Earthquake
• Volcano
• Convection Current
• Gravitational Pull

Which of the following is where one plate slides under another plate?

• submarine zone
• divergence zone
• subduction zone
• lower zone

The idea that continents were once part of a single landmass that broke apart and

moved

• CONTINENTAL DRIFT

• SEAFLOOR SPREADING

• PLATE BOUNDERIES

• CONVECTION CURRENTS

______ a theory that a new sea floor is created at mid-ocean ridges and that in the process the continents are pushed apart from each other.

• PLATE TECTONIC

• SEA-FLOOR SPREADING

• FAULTS

• SEISMOMETER

Who is the German meteorologist who formed the hypothesis of continental drift.

• Harry Hess
• Alfred Wegener
• Alfred Dewire
• Theresa Wentling