Tectonic Plates Review

Based on the image above, the boundary between which plates is likely to form an ocean

basin?

• North American and Pacific

• South American and African

• Indo-Australian and Pacific

• Eurasian and Indo-Australian

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Based on the image above, one of the boundaries between which plates is classified as

transform?

• North American and Pacific

• South American and African

• Indo-Australian and Pacific

• Eurasian and North American

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is the name of Plate E?

• Eurasian

• African

• Indo-Australian

• Pacific

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The South American Plate is —

• Plate A

• Plate B

• Plate C

• Plate E

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When the edges of tectonic plates shift and energy is released, what is the most likely

result?

• Earthquake

• Volcanoes

• Mountain Formation

• Island Formation

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Which statement best describes the movement of Earth’s plates?

• The plates moved for millions of years but have now stopped.

• There is no evidence that plates ever moved.

• The plates stayed in one place for millions of years but are moving now.

• The plates are constantly moving.

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According to the theory of plate tectonics, where do most active volcanoes occur?

• On continental plates

• Along plate boundaries

• On oceanic plates

• Underwater

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The Rockies and the Appalachians are two major mountain ranges in the United States.

Which type of plate movement caused these mountain ranges to form?

• Divergent

• Oceanic

• Convergent

• Transfor,

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One of the major transform boundaries in the world is on the southwestern margin of the

North American Plate along the San Andreas fault system. Which type of geologic event is

most likely to occur along this boundary?

• Volcano

• Seafloor Spreading

• Mountain building

• Earthquake

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The Pacific Ocean basin is the oldest, largest, and deepest of the existing ocean basins in

the world. Its area is about 59 million square miles and all of the continents could fit into it.

Ocean basins form at which type of plate boundary?

• Transform

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Oceanic

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