Plate Tectonics Vocabulary Quiz

What is the asthenosphere?

• The rigid upper layer of the Earth

• A layer of the upper mantle in which rocks can deform like plastic

• The rocky outer layer of Earth

• A boundary between plates that are moving toward each other

What is a collision zone?

• A boundary between plates that are moving away from each other

• A boundary between plates that are moving toward each other

• An area in a convergent boundary where two continents are colliding

• The rigid upper layer of the Earth

What is a convergent boundary?

• A boundary between plates that are moving away from each other

• A boundary between plates that are moving toward each other

• The rocky outer layer of Earth

• The layer of Earth between the crust and the core

What is a divergent boundary?

• A boundary between plates that are moving away from each other

• A boundary between plates that are moving toward each other

• The rigid upper layer of the Earth

• The rocky outer layer of Earth

What is the movement of plates that make up Earth's surface called?

• Subduction zone

• Transform boundary

• Plate tectonics

• Volcano

What is a convergent boundary where one plate is sliding beneath another called?

• Transform boundary

• Subduction zone

• Plate tectonics

• Volcano

Which of the following is NOT a type of plate boundary?

• Divergent

• Transform

• Convergent

• Volcano

Which type of plate boundary involves plates sliding past one another?

• Subduction zone

• Transform boundary

• Plate tectonics

• Volcano

In a subduction zone, what happens to the denser lithosphere?

• It rises above the other plate

• It subducts or sinks below the other plate

• It moves horizontally

• It forms a mountain

What name is given to the type of crust that is more dense and primarily made up of basalt and is found at the bottom of the oceans?

• Divergent Crust

• Lithospheric Crust

• Oceanic Crust

• Continental Crust