Plate Motion Unit Assessment

What is a sudden shaking of Earth's surface?

• Volcanic activity

• earthquake

• landform

What is a natural spring that sends hot water and steam suddenly into the air from a hole in the ground?

• geyser

• trench

• cross section

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

• Plate

• Landform

• Mantle

What means moving toward the same place?

• convergent

• divergent

• subduction

What is a feature that forms on the surface of a planet, such as a mountain, channel, or sand dune?

• Mid-ocean ridge

• trench

• landform

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

• Earthquake

• Trench

• Mid-ocean ridge

What is moving apart in different directions mean?

• convergent

• divergent

• plate boundary

What is the place where two plates meet?

• Mid-ocean ridge

• landform

• plate boundary

Which is an underwater mountain range that formed when two plates moved apart?

• plate boundary

• North Atlantic Trench

• Mid-ocean ridge

What is any of the many processes (such as eruptions and lava flows) in which gas, lava, and ash are pushed out on the surface of the Earth?

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Volcanic activity