Unit 3 Practice Test- 8th Sci Kerst

Which two landforms are caused by convergent plate boundaries?

• a ridge and a rift valley

• an ocean trench and a mountain

• a trench and a mid-ocean ridge

Which feature on Earth's crust is in the same location for most of these volcanoes?

• ocean currents

• tectonic plate boundaries

• mantle

What type of boundary is this?

• Transform

• Convergent

• Divergent

What can happen when plate boundaries hit each other?

• A tornado

• A snowstorm

• An earthquake

The layer of Earth we live on is the

• Mantle

• Inner Core

• Crust

The crust of the Earth is broken into plates that move.

• True

• False

What type of boundary is this?

• Transform

• Convergent

• Divergent

Which island is the oldest?

• Island W

• Island X

• Island Y

When continental plates pull apart at a divergent boundary on land, a(n) ___ forms.

• rift valley

• elastic rebound

• deep-ocean trench

the sudden return of elastically deformed rock to its undeformed shaped forms.

• fault

• epicenter

• elastic rebound