8.9B Plate Boundaries Escape Room

The dark lines on the map below represent the edges of Earth's tectonic plates. What kind of landforms would you expect to find along the lines?

• Volcanoes

• Dunes

• Glaciers

• Deltas

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The Himalayan Mountains are depicted on the map below. The Himalayan Mountains were created from ancient seabeds that were lifted up by —

• volcanic activity in China's southern plateau.

• a reversal in Earth's magnetic field.

• a collision between the Indo-Australian plate and the Indian Ocean.

• a collision between the Indo-Australian and Eurasian continental plates.

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New ocean crust continuously forms —

• at mid ocean ridges

• where sediment is tichkest

• near deep-ocean trenches

• at areas of low tide

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Oceanic trenches are long, narrow depressions on the ocean floor. An oceanic trench is formed when one plate —

• pulls back from another plate.

• grinds against another plate.

• dips below another plate.

• splits into two plates.

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The image shows the formation of a mountain range from interactions at plate boundaries. Type in the plate boundary that is MOST LIKELY responsible for the formation of the mountain range in the image.

A ​ (a)   ​ plate boundary formed the mountain range.

• convergent
• divergent
• transform

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Which features form at plate tectonic boundaries?

Pick THREE correct choices.

• A ridge can form when two plates move apart.

• A mountain range can form when two plates collide.

• A valley can form when two plates are pushed upward.

• New crust can form when two plates slide past each other.

• A trench can form when one plate moves beneath another.

Observe the image above. What major land formation is occurring at the location marked by the black arrow?

• convection current formation

• mid-ocean ridge formation

• subduction zone formation

• fault line formation

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Observe the image above. Which statement BEST describes the land formation marked by the black arrow?

• Convection currents occur in the mantle and cause movement of the plates.

• Subduction zones occur when a more dense plate collides and moves beneath a lesser dense plate.

• Mid-ocean ridges occur when plates separate forming new land as the molten rock rises to the seafloor and cools.

• Fault lines occur when plates move apart and slide past each other.

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Complete the following statements about transform boundaries by moving the answers to the correct boxes. Transform boundaries occur when two plates ​ (a)   past each other. These types of boundaries form various crustal features such as ​ (b)   and ​causes (c)   ​

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• slide
• separate
• collide
• subduct
• faults
• trenches
• mountains
• rift valleys
• earthquakes
• volcanoes

Observe the image. Which type of plate boundary is occurring at the locations marked with the black arrows?

• 
  convergent plate boundary

• divergent boundary

• transform boundary

• thrust plate boundary

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