Plate Tectonics 2

A group of students are completing a lab investigation on Earth’s plate tectonics. The students are using graham crackers to represent tectonic plates and peanut butter to represent the asthenosphere.  The students use their hands to push the crackers next to each other traveling in opposite directions, representing a transform plate boundary. Which of the following can the students best demonstrate with their lab crackers?

• The formation of mountains

• The formation of trenches

• Earthquakes

• The formation of icecaps

A ridge is located on the boundary between two transform tectonic plates. Which diagram correctly models the relative plate motion on each side of the ridge?

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The model below shows the movements of two continental plates.  The land mass in this model formed at which type of plate boundary?

• Divergent boundary

• Congruent boundary

• Subduction zone due to a convergent boundary

• Transform boundary

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A group of students are completing a lab investigation on Earth’s plate tectonics. The students are using graham crackers to represent tectonic plates and peanut butter to represent the asthenosphere.  The students use their hands to push the crackers together representing a convergent plate boundary. Which of the following can the students best demonstrate with their lab crackers? (choose 2)

• The formation of mountains

• The formation of icecaps

• Earthquakes

• The formation of rift valleys

• An area prone to volcanoes

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The land mass in this model formed at which type of plate boundary?

• Convergent boundary

• Subduction boundary

• Divergent boundary

• Transform boundary

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A scientist, Alfred Wegener, noticed that the continents appeared to fit together. In the early 1900s, Alfred Wegener developed the Theory of Continental Drift. This theory is based on the idea that –

• Earth has moving tectonic plates.

• Earth has warm and cold ocean currents.

• Earth’s icecaps are slowly melting.

• Earth is roughly 4.5 billion years old.

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A ridge is located between two tectonic plates that are diverging. Which diagram correctly models the relative plate motion on each side of the ridge?

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 A map of the Americas is below. Tectonic plates are outlined in black, and the direction each plate is moving in is shown with a red arrow.  Which geologic feature is most likely to form at location 1?

• Valleys caused by glaciers

• A wide oceanic trench

• Earthquakes

• Volcanoes and mountains

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The Himalayan mountains are located on a plate boundary between China and India. Which diagram correctly models the relative plate motion on each side of the Himalayan mountains?

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Why does the oceanic plate sink under the continental plate?

• The continental plate is more dense than the oceanic plate

• The oceanic plate is more dense than the continental plate

• They have equal density

• Neither sinks they crash and form mountains

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