Plate Tectonics

What type of Plate Boundary has the most explosive earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis?

• Transform Boundary

• Convergent Boundary

• Divergent Boundary

• Pacific Ring of Fire

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What plate boundary type is where we find subduction zones?

• Transform

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Pacific

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What is a subduction zone?

• a deep sea trench

• near seafloor spreading

• where two divergent plates seperate

• when two convergent plates collide and one goes under the other

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A continental and oceanic plates are colliding at a convergent boundary, which plate is subducted (goes under the other).

• Neither they collide and form mountains

• the continental plate will be subducted

• the oceanic plate will be subducted

• they will both be subducted.

Answer explanation

The denser and Oceanic crust always goes under the less dense continental crust.

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At what plate boundaries will we find volcanoes?

• Transform

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Convergent and divergent

Answer explanation

We will find volcanoes at convergent and divergent plate boundaries.

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What is a divergent plate boundary?

• where two plates are pulling apart

• where two plates are coming together

• where two plates are moving past one another

• a type of fine china

Answer explanation

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What is a convergent plate boundary?

• where two plates are pulling apart

• where two plates are coming together

• where two plates are moving past one another

• a type of fine china

Answer explanation

What is a transform plate boundary?

• where two plates are pulling apart

• where two plates are coming together

• where two plates are moving past one another

• a type of fine china

Answer explanation

When a continental and continental plate have a convergent plate boundary what happens?

• the older plate subducts under the younger one

• the younger plate subducts under the older one

• both plates collide and go upward forming mountains

• both plates become subducted forming a rift valley

Answer explanation

when the two plates collided it formed the himalayan mountain range

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In continental-oceanic convergent boundaries how are volcanoes created and fed?

• Oceanic-continental convergent do not form volcanoes

• the inner core has channels to the volcanoes

• the subducted plate melts and then the magma comes back to surface.

• the sun melts the rock inside the mountain making it a volcano

Answer explanation

as the plate is subducted it goes further into the earth becoming hotter and hotter until it melts and then rises to the surface forming or feeding our volcanoes at convergent boundaries.

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