Quiz about Plate Tectonics and Landforms

Question 1

What type of boundary forms when tectonic plates move toward each other and collide?

Accepted Answer

Convergent boundary

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Divergent boundary

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Transform boundary

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Subduction boundary

Question 2

What geological process occurs when a continental plate converges with another continental plate?

Accepted Answer

Compression

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Erosion

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Subduction

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Volcanic activity

Question 3

What is the result of the compression that occurs when two continental plates converge?

Accepted Answer

Uplift and creation of mountain ranges

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Formation of oceanic trenches

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Spreading of the sea floor

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Formation of volcanic islands

Question 4

Which mountain range is an example of uplift caused by the convergence of two continental plates?

Accepted Answer

The Himalayas

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The Rockies

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The Andes

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The Alps

Question 5

What type of plate boundary is characterized by plates sliding past each other?

Accepted Answer

Transform Plate Boundary

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Divergent Plate Boundary

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Convergent Plate Boundary

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Subduction Zone

Question 6

Which of the following is an example of a Divergent Plate Boundary?

Accepted Answer

Mid-Atlantic Ridge in Atlantic Ocean

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The San Andreas Fault in California

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The Himalayan Mountains

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The Indo-Australian Plate converging with the Eurasian Plate

Question 7

What geological feature is commonly associated with Convergent Plate Boundaries?

Accepted Answer

Mountain building

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Rift Valleys

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Earthquakes and fault lines

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Sea Floor Spreading

Question 8

What features are associated with convergent boundaries?

Accepted Answer

The formation of high folded mountain ranges

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The formation of ocean basins

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The formation of mid-ocean ridges

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The formation of volcanic islands

Question 9

What geological feature is created when an oceanic plate converges with a continental plate?

Accepted Answer

Subduction zones creating trenches and/or mountains

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Plateaus

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Plains

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River deltas

Question 10

Which mountain range is an example of a feature formed by the convergence of an oceanic plate and a continental plate?

Accepted Answer

The Andes Mountains

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The Rocky Mountains

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The Himalayas

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The Alps

Question 11

What is the main feature of a Divergent Plate Boundary?

Accepted Answer

Rift Valleys, Sea Floor Spreading

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Earthquakes, fault lines

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Mountain building

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Volcanoes

Question 12

Which type of plate boundary is characterized by plates sliding past each other?

Accepted Answer

Transform Plate Boundary

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Divergent Plate Boundary

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Convergent Plate Boundary Collision

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Convergent Plate Boundary Subduction

Question 13

What geological feature is commonly formed at a Convergent Plate Boundary Collision?

Accepted Answer

Mountain building

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Rift Valleys

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Earthquakes

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Sea Floor Spreading

Question 14

What occurs at an Ocean-Ocean Convergent Plate Boundary Subduction?

Accepted Answer

The older plate subducts under the newer one

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The newer plate subducts under the older one

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Both plates slide past each other

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Both plates move apart

Question 15

Which example corresponds to a Transform Plate Boundary?

Accepted Answer

The San Andreas Fault in California

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Great Rift Valley in Africa

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Mid-Atlantic Ridge in Atlantic Ocean

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The Himalayan Mountains

Question 16

What is the result of an Ocean-Continent Convergent Plate Boundary Subduction?

Accepted Answer

Above ground volcanoes in South America

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Underwater volcanoes

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Sea Floor Spreading

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Mountain building

Question 17

What geological process occurs when an oceanic plate converges with another oceanic plate?

Accepted Answer

Compression

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Erosion

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Volcanic eruption

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Earthquake

Question 18

What feature is formed on the ocean floor as a result of the compression between two converging oceanic plates?

Accepted Answer

Trenches

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Mountains

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Islands

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Rivers

Question 19

What is the name of the deep trench mentioned in the image?

Accepted Answer

Challenger Deep

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Mariana Trench

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Java Trench

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Tonga Trench

Question 20

What happens during oceanic-oceanic convergence according to the image?

Accepted Answer

The denser plate sinks beneath the less dense plate.

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The less dense plate sinks beneath the denser plate.

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The plates slide past each other without colliding.

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The plates merge and form a single larger plate.

Question 21

What is the result of continental-continental convergence as shown in the image?

Accepted Answer

The plates push against each other and buckle.

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The plates slide past each other smoothly.

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A trench is formed where the plates meet.

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An island arc is created due to the collision.

Question 22

What is the process by which folded mountains form?

Accepted Answer

The plates are pushed upward by compression and folded.

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The plates are pulled apart by tension and folded.

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The plates slide past each other and fold.

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The plates melt and then solidify to form mountains.

Question 23

What geological feature can be created by the collision of a continental plate with an oceanic plate?

Accepted Answer

Volcanic arcs

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Mountain ranges

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River valleys

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Earthquakes

Question 24

Which of the following is an example of a landform created by the collision of a continental plate with an oceanic plate?

Accepted Answer

The Cascades

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The Himalayas

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The Andes

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The Alps

Question 25

Which of the following island groups is an example of landforms created by the collision of two oceanic plates?

Accepted Answer

Philippine Islands

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Hawaiian Islands

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Galapagos Islands

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Balearic Islands

Question 26

What happens to magma as it rises through the lithosphere?

Accepted Answer

It rises up through conduits in the volcano.

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It cools and solidifies before reaching the surface.

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It turns into sedimentary rock.

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It forms glaciers on the mountain.

Question 27

What occurs when a volcano erupts?

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Lava erupts and solidifies to add to the mountain.

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The magma turns directly into intrusive igneous rock.

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Glaciers form around the volcano's summit.

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The lava flows turn into conduits.

Question 28

What is the final process that adds to the mountain's mass after a volcanic eruption?

Accepted Answer

The cooling and solidifying of lava.

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The eruption of summit cones.

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The formation of glaciers.

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The creation of intrusive igneous rock.

Question 29

What can the collision of an oceanic plate with another oceanic plate create?

Accepted Answer

Ocean trenches

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Mountains

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Volcanoes

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Islands

Question 30

What is the name of the deepest trench in the Pacific Ocean?

Accepted Answer

Mariana Trench

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Atlantic Trench

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Challenger Deep

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Philippine Trench

Question 31

What is the main topic of Unit 3, Lesson 3 in the learning material?

Accepted Answer

Plate Tectonics and Landforms

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Climate Change and Weather Patterns

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Ocean Currents and Marine Life

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Volcanoes and Earthquakes

Question 32

Which example corresponds to a Transform Plate Boundary?

Accepted Answer

The San Andreas Fault in California

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Great Rift Valley in Africa

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The Indo-Australian Plate converges with the Eurasian Plate to form the Himalayan Mountains

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Underwater volcanoes

Question 33

What happens at a Convergent Plate Boundary Collision?

Accepted Answer

Colliding into each other

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Sliding past each other

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The more dense oceanic plate subducts under the continental plate

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Apart, Dividing

Question 34

What is an example of a Convergent Plate Boundary Subduction between an oceanic and continental plate?

Accepted Answer

Above ground volcanoes in South America

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Mid-Atlantic Ridge in Atlantic Ocean

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Earthquakes, fault lines

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Great Rift Valley in Africa

Question 35

What volcanic landforms occur away from plate boundaries?

Accepted Answer

Volcanic island chains such as the Hawaiian Islands

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Mid-ocean ridges

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Subduction zones

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Fold mountains

Question 36

How are volcanic landforms away from plate boundaries created?

Accepted Answer

By hot spots or mantle plumes that rise through the crust

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By the movement of tectonic plates

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By volcanic activity at plate boundaries

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By sediment deposition

Question 37

How does the formation of volcanoes at hot spots differ from the formation of volcanoes at convergent boundaries?

Accepted Answer

Volcanoes at hot spots form when mantle plumes bring hot rock through the surface, creating hot spot volcanoes, whereas volcanoes at convergent boundaries form when rock gets subducted and melts.

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Volcanoes at hot spots form due to the collision of tectonic plates, while those at convergent boundaries form above mantle plumes.

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Volcanoes at hot spots and convergent boundaries both form due to subduction and melting of rock.

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Volcanoes at convergent boundaries form when mantle plumes bring hot rock through the surface, while those at hot spots form due to the collision of tectonic plates.

Question 38

Where are volcanic island chains such as those formed over hot spots typically located?

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Far from tectonic plate boundaries

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Close to tectonic plate boundaries

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At the site of asteroid impacts

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Along the mid-ocean ridges

Question 39

What geological process is illustrated by the age progression of the Hawaiian Islands from Kaua'i to Hawai'i?

Accepted Answer

Hotspot volcanism

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Subduction of oceanic crust

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Continental drift

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Plate convergence

Question 40

According to the diagram, which island is the oldest?

Accepted Answer

Ni'ihau

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O'ahu

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Maui

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Hawai'i

Question 41

What is the direction of the Pacific Plate's movement as indicated in the diagram?

Accepted Answer

North-West

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South-East

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North-East

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South-West

Question 42

What feature is labeled at the southeastern end of the chain of the Hawaiian Islands in the diagram?

Accepted Answer

Lo'ihi Seamount

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Mauna Loa

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Kilauea

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Magma chambers

Question 43

Earth's lithosphere is broken into tectonic plates, which differ in size, shape, and other properties.

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True

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False

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Only size and shape differ

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Tectonic plates are uniform

Question 44

Continental lithosphere is denser than oceanic lithosphere.

Accepted Answer

False

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True

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They have the same density

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Oceanic lithosphere is not dense

Question 45

Stress causes rock to bend, tilt, or break.

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True

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False

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Stress only causes rock to break

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Stress has no effect on rocks

Question 46

Faults occur at places where rocks break rather than bend.

Accepted Answer

True

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False

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Rocks bend at faults

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Faults are unrelated to rocks

Question 47

Fault-block mountains form at divergent boundaries.

Accepted Answer

True

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False

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They form at convergent boundaries

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Mountains do not form at plate boundaries

Question 48

What is the asthenosphere?

Accepted Answer

A solid layer of Earth made of weak, slow-flowing rock

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The outermost physical layer of Earth

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Where two tectonic plates are moving past each other

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Where two tectonic plates are moving apart

Question 49

What is a divergent boundary?

Accepted Answer

Where two tectonic plates are moving apart

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The outermost physical layer of Earth

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A solid layer of Earth made of weak, slow-flowing rock

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Where two tectonic plates are moving past each other

Question 50

What is the lithosphere?

Accepted Answer

The outermost physical layer of Earth

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Where two tectonic plates are moving past each other

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A solid layer of Earth made of weak, slow-flowing rock

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Where two tectonic plates are moving apart

Question 51

What is a transform boundary?

Accepted Answer

Where two tectonic plates are moving past each other

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Where two tectonic plates are moving apart

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The outermost physical layer of Earth

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A solid layer of Earth made of weak, slow-flowing rock

Question 52

What landforms form at convergent boundaries where two oceanic plates collide?

Accepted Answer

Volcanic islands

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Mountains

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Rift valleys

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Earthquakes

Question 53

What changes to landforms are caused by movements at transform boundaries?

Accepted Answer

Earthquakes and fault lines

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Creation of mountains

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Formation of rift valleys

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Volcanic activity

Question 54

Which type of tectonic plate boundary is associated with this type of stress?

Accepted Answer

Divergent boundary

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Transform boundary

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Convergent boundary

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Subduction zone

Question 55

A volcano forms near a tectonic plate boundary. What can you infer about the formation of this volcano?

Accepted Answer

It is a result of a convergent boundary.

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It is a result of a divergent boundary.

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It is a result of a transform boundary.

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It is not related to tectonic plate boundaries.

Question 56

What does the term 'asthenosphere' refer to?

Accepted Answer

a solid layer of Earth made of weak, slow-flowing rock

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where two tectonic plates are moving apart

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where two tectonic plates are moving past each other

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the outermost physical layer of Earth

Question 57

What is a 'divergent boundary'?

Accepted Answer

where two tectonic plates are moving apart

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a solid layer of Earth made of weak, slow-flowing rock

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where two tectonic plates are moving past each other

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the outermost physical layer of Earth

Question 58

What is the 'lithosphere'?

Accepted Answer

the outermost physical layer of Earth

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where two tectonic plates are moving apart

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a solid layer of Earth made of weak, slow-flowing rock

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where two tectonic plates are moving past each other

Question 59

What does 'transform boundary' mean?

Accepted Answer

where two tectonic plates are moving past each other

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where two tectonic plates are moving apart

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a solid layer of Earth made of weak, slow-flowing rock

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the outermost physical layer of Earth

Question 60

Which type of tectonic plate boundary occurs where the Indian plate COLLIDES with the Eurasian plate to form the Himalayas?

Accepted Answer

Convergent boundary

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Divergent boundary

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Transform boundary

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Subduction zone

Question 61

What landforms form at convergent boundaries where two oceanic plates collide?

Accepted Answer

Volcanic islands

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Mountain ranges

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Rift valleys

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Earthquake zones

Question 62

What changes to landforms are caused by movements at transform boundaries?

Accepted Answer

Earthquakes and fault lines

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Creation of mountain ranges

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Formation of rift valleys

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Subduction and volcanic activity

Question 63

Which type of landform forms at the plate boundary as a result of this stress?

Accepted Answer

Fault lines

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Volcanic mountains

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Ocean trenches

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Mid-ocean ridges

Question 64

What can you infer about the formation of a volcano that forms near a tectonic plate boundary?

Accepted Answer

It is due to the subduction of one plate under another.

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It is caused by the collision of two continental plates.

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It is the result of a hot spot in the Earth's mantle.

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It is formed by the divergence of two tectonic plates.

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