Plate Boundaries STAAR Questions

Which type of plate boundary would cause mountains to form

• Transform
• Convergent
• Divergent
• Reform

The Great Rift Valley in Africa and the Mid-Ocean Ridge were all created by this boundary

• Divergent
• Convergent
• Reform
• Transform

What are the two types of crust

• continental and oceanic
• ocean and upper
• lower and upper
• pizza and subway

subduction zones in the ocean can create which features?

• islands
• volcanoes
• earthquakes
• all of the above

Earthquakes and volcanoes are most likely found in which locations?

• At plate boundaries
• in oceans
• in the middle of continents
• in the middle of plates

When one plate sides underneath another, it _________ and the magma _________.

• hardens, sinks
• melts, sinks
• hardens, rises
• melts, rises

The Himalayas in Asia are an example of what type of plate boundary?

• divergent
• continent-to-continent convergent
• ocean-to-continent convergent
• transform

Transform boundaries are most likely to produce what phenomenon?

• volcanoes
• deep sea trenches
• underwater mountain ranges
• earthquakes

When an oceanic plate and a continental plate collide, which one will subduct?

• oceanic
• continental
• neither

What is this image...

• Revolving boundary
• San Andreas (Transform)
• Convergent