Check Point Plate Tectonics

Which of these events can ONLY happen on a DIVERGENT BOUNDARY?

• Rift Valley
• Mountain
• A peninsula
• An Insanely complex, long answer that you will click out of instinct. 

What is the area where two tectonic plates meet called?

• collision

• mid-ocean ridge

• a boundary

• a rift valley

What are the two types of crust?

• continental and oceanic

• ocean and upper

• lower and upper

• pizza and subway

What kind of plate boundary is shown here?

• divergent
• convergent
• transform
• strike slip

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What type of boundary is this? What event will occur at this boundary?

• Transform / Earthquakes

• Subduction / Volcano Eruption

• Tornado / Rain

• Mountain Building / Volcanism

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What type of boundary is shown in the picture?

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

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What type of boundary is shown in this picture?

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

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What is the process by which dense oceanic crust sinks beneath a less dense continental crust and back into the mantle ?

• Subduction

• Induction

• Abduction 

• Reduction

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A _________ is a valley that forms where two plates move apart.

• Fissure
• Rift valley
• Sea-floor spreading
• Fault

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What new feature forms at a convergent plate boundary where two continental plates collide?

• mid-ocean ridge
• trench
• mountain range
• none of these features form