Plate Tectonics & Continental Drift Review

The place where two plates come together is known as a _______

• transform boundary.

• divergent boundary.

• convergent boundary.

• rift valley.

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The San Andreas Fault in California is known as an active earthquake area. What type of

boundary is it?

• Converging

• Diverging

• Transform

• Sea Floor Spreading

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When two continental crusts push together at a convergent boundary, what do they create?

• earthquakes

• valleys

• sea-floor spreading

• mountains

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Which of the following causes Earth's tectonic plates to move?

• Energy from the Sun

• Magnetic Pole Reversal

• Convection currents in the mantle

• Faults in Mountain Ranges

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What type of event will occur at this boundary?

• Earthquake

• Volcano Eruption

• Tornado

• Mountain Building

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What geologic process formed the Himalayas?

• two continental plates converging

• an earthquake in a subduction zone

• a tectonic plate moving over a hot spot

• movement at a transform fault boundary

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What occurs at a convergent boundary where an oceanic crust and continental crust come together?

• sea-floor spreading

• volcanoes

• no subduction

Which sentence is evidence for Pangea (continental drift).

• Fossils of the same species being found on different continents.

• The same rock formations found on different continents.

• Continents fitting together like puzzle pieces.

• All of these sentences.

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_____________ is a plate boundary where two plates move away from each other.

• Convergent boundary
• Transform boundary
• Divergent boundary
• Insurgent boundary

Which of the following causes Earth's tectonic plates to move?

• Energy from the Sun

• Magnetic Pole Reversal

• Convection currents in the mantle

• Faults in Mountain Ranges

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