Types of Tectonic Plates and Boundaries

A divergent boundary occurs when plates ....

• Pull apart

• Come together

• Slide past each other

• subducting

Mountains are created when....

• Two continental plates collide

• Two oceanic plates pull apart

• An Oceanic plate subducts under a Continental Plate

• Two continental plates pull apart

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What geologic feature/event you be most likely to find at a transform boundary?

• Earthquakes

• Volcanoes

• Mountains

• Rift Valleys

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A subduction zone is formed...

• when one tectonic plate sinks below another

• at every type of convergent plate boundary

• at every type of divergent plate boundary

• at transform boundaries

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The area where two or more plates meet is called a __________________.

• fault

• plate boundary

• plate edge

• ring of fire

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Plates slide past one another at ____________ boundaries.

• divergent

• convergent

• transform

• submergent

Below is a picture of sea-floor spreading. How are the ocean crusts moving?

• Converging

• Diverging

• Sliding

• No movement

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There are three types of plate boundaries. Which choice is NOT a type of plate boundary?

• convergent

• thrust

• divergent

• transform

Three Types of Plate Boundaries

• Transform (slide past)

• Convergent (collision)

• Divergent (pull apart)

• All the above

Example of divergent boundary between two continental plates.

• Mid-Atlantic Ridge (valley in the Atlantic Ocean)

• Andes Mountains (S. America)

• Himalayan Mountains

• None of the above

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