Plate Motion Quiz

What is the layer of soft, solid rock underneath Earth's plates called?

• Mantle

• Outer layer

• Lava

• Magma

What is the sudden shaking of Earth's surface called?

• Eruption

• Fossil

• Earthquake

• Geyser

What is the evidence of life from the past, such as fossilized bones, footprints, or leaf prints called?

• Landform

• Volcanic activity

• Fossil

• Trench

What is the underwater mountain range formed at a divergent boundary called?

• Plate Boundary

• Cross section

• Mid-ocean ridge

• Trench

What is the long, deep indentation in the ocean floor formed when two plates move together called?

• Rifting

• Trench

• Convergent boundary

• Divergent boundary

Analyze

• To look at information carefully

• To look at quickly

• To create a question

• To make a claim

Plate Boundary

• Where plates are located in the mantle

• How earthquakes happen

• Fossilized rock

• Where tectonic plates meet

A cross-section is a type of:

• layer of the Earth

• image

• diagram

• boundary

The type of boundary where plates move away from each other

• ridge

• tectonic

• convergent

• divergent

At a ____________ boundary, plates move towards each other

• divergent

• transform

• fault

• convergent