Plate Tectonics

What type of plate boundary is shown in the picture?

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transform

What type of plate boundary is shown in the picture?

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transform

What type of plate boundary is shown in the picture?

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transform

What geologic event would most likely be found at a transform boundary?

• Volcano

• Mountain

• Earthquake

• Mid-Ocean Ridge

What landform would you most likely find at a divergent boundary between two pieces of continental crust?

• Mid-Ocean Ridge

• Rift Valley

• Mountain

• Volcano

What landform would you most likely find at a convergent boundary between two pieces of continental crust?

• Mid-Ocean Ridge

• Oceanic Trench

• Mountain

• Volcano

When one tectonic plate sinks under another, this is called...

• Convegent

• Divergent

• Subduction

• Transform

Which type of boundary do plates move away from each other?

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transform

Plates slide past one another at ____ boundaries.

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transform

Plate movement is caused by ____________.

• the rotation of the Earth

• convection currents in the mantle

• ocean tides

• the moon's gravity