DOL - 12/10 - Plate Boundaries

Look at the diagrams. Which answer choice correctly names the landform that could be created at each of the plate boundary types?

• A = Ocean Trench

  B = Fault Line

  C = Mountain

  D = Fault Line

• A = Rift Valley

  B = Volcano

  C = Mountain

  D = Fault Line

• A = Mid Ocean Ridge

  B = Volcanic Island Arc

  C = Fold Mountains

  D = Fault Line

• A = Fault Line

  B = Mountain

  C = Volcanic Island Arc

  D = Fault Line

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The youngest rocks on the ocean floor are typically located near what feature?

• a mid-ocean ridge

• a subduction zone

• on an island arc

• a deep-sea trench

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What happens where an oceanic plate converges with a continental plate?

• The denser oceanic plate slides on top of the less dense continental plate.

• The denser oceanic plate slides under the less dense continental plate.

• The less dense oceanic plate slides past the denser continental plate.

• The less dense oceanic plate slides under the denser continental plate.

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What kind of plate movement created the Himalayan Mountains?

• convergence of oceanic crust with continental crust.

• divergence between two continental crustal plates.

• transform movement between oceanic and continental crustal plates.

• convergence of two plates composed of continental crust.

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Rift valleys, like the Great African Rift Valley, form as a result of:

• crustal compression.

• divergent boundaries

• convergent boundaries

• subduction zones

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What kind of plate boundary occurs where two plates grind past each other without destroying or producing new lithosphere?

• divergent boundary

• hotspots

• convergent boundary

• transform boundary

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The process where oceanic crust slides under another plate and is melted is called ___________.

• seafloor spreading

• subduction

• continental drift

• recycling

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What two crustal features occur near every subduction zone?

• Volcanoes and Trenches

• Rift Valleys and Mid Ocean Ridges

• Volcanoes and Rift Valleys

• Mid Ocean Ridges and Trenches

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What type of plate boundary is this?

• Transform
• Convergent
• Divergent
• Plate

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The movement of the tectonic plates is caused by

• the rotation of the Earth.

• convection currents in the Asthenosphere

• the gravity of the iron-nickel core.

• the Moho discontinuity.

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