Plate Tectonics Quiz (Unit 9)

What occurs when two continental crust plates converge?

• Mountain ranges form, neither subduct

• Volcanic islands form

• One plate subducts under the other

• A deep ocean trench forms

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What occurs when two oceanic crust plates converge?

• One plate keeps getting pushed down under the other plate as they continue to move together.

• The plates move away from each other, creating a new oceanic ridge.

• The plates slide past each other, causing earthquakes along the boundary.

• The plates collide and form a mountain range on the ocean floor.

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What happens to the density of the new seafloor as it cools?

• It gets more dense the older it gets

• It becomes less dense over time

• It remains the same density

• It fluctuates randomly

What occurs at an oceanic-oceanic convergent boundary?

• old crust is recycled by subduction

• new crust is formed by volcanic activity

• tectonic plates move apart

• earthquakes are rare in this region

Features found at divergent boundaries include ________________.

• mid ocean ridges

• ocean trenches

• volcanic arcs

• transform faults

Crust is neither created nor destroyed at what type of boundary?

• Transform boundaries

• Convergent boundaries

• Divergent boundaries

• Subduction zones

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A narrow, elongated depression in the seafloor is called a _________________.

• deep ocean trench

• seamount

• continental shelf

• mid-ocean ridge

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This type of boundary is characterized by long faults and shallow earthquakes.

• Transform boundaries

• Convergent boundaries

• Divergent boundaries

• Subduction zones

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What theory states that the Earth’s crust and rigid upper mantle are broken into enormous slabs called plates that move slowly over the Earth’s surface?

• Plate tectonic theory

• Continental drift theory

• Seafloor spreading theory

• Geocentric theory

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Places where plates move apart are called________________.

• divergent boundaries

• convergent boundaries

• transform boundaries

• subduction zones