Plate Tectonic Test Review

Convergent plate boundary forms or creates ____

• Hurricanes

• Trenches

• Seafloor spreading

• Mid-oceanic ridge

The movement of the tectonic plates is caused by _____.

• the cooling of magma as it rises from seafloor spreading

• the shifting of plates from side to side

• convection currents in the Earth's mantle

• ocean currents above the oceanic plates

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What geological feature is commonly formed at a divergent plate boundary?

• Volcanoes

• Earthquakes

• Mountain ranges

• Mid-ocean ridges

Which type of plate boundary is most likely to cause earthquakes?

• Subduction

• Transform

• Divergent

• Convergent

The OLDEST seafloor is located? 

• Closest to the mid-ocean ridge
• Farthest from the mid-ocean ridge

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 A land feature that is produced at a convergent boundary is _____.

• a canyon

• a valley

• a mountain

• a volcano

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What type of landform is formed at convergent boundaries between the oceanic plate and continental plate?

• mid-oceanic ridge

• ocean trench

• Seafloor spreading

• rift valley

Which statement describes how fossils from the freshwater Mesosaurus reptile is found in both South America and Africa?

• A freshwater reptile could not have swam across the ocean, so the oceans must have once been filled with freshwater.

• A freshwater reptile could not have swam across the ocean, so the continents must have once been one large continent.

• The oceans must have been smaller, so the freshwater reptiles had shorter distances to swim across.

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In this convergent plate boundary, the _______ plate collides with a continental plate.

(Type answer in lowercase)

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SELECT TWO- Which of the following occurs at CONVERGENT plate boundaries?

• Volcanic mountains (Volcanoes) (on land)

• Rift Valleys (on land)

• Mid-Ocean Ridges (underwater)

• Ocean trenches (underwater)

Answer explanation

Convergent boundaries can create trenches, mountains, earthquakes, and volcanoes

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