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WorksheetsPlate Boundaries and Crustal Features
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which happens at a TRANSFORM boundary?
a)
major earth quakes
b)
mid ocean ridge
c)
rift valley
d)
deep sea trenches
2.
Mountains form when a continental plate and an oceanic plate MOVE AWAY.
a)
True
b)
False
3.
What would you be most likely to find at a CONVERGENT boundary between a LAND and OCEAN?
a)
Mountains
b)
Volcanoes
c)
Mid-Ocean Ridge
d)
Rift
4.
What would be at a DIVERGENT boundary with two OCEANS?
a)
Rift
b)
Mid-Ocean Ridge
c)
Island Arc
d)
Flat land
5.
What would be at a CONVERGENT as two LANDS hit?
a)
Volcano
b)
Mountains
c)
Rift
d)
Island Arc
6.
Subduction happens at . . .
a)
When one plate SINKs or GOES UNDER
b)
ALL Divergent Plates
c)
ALL transform
d)
ALL Convergent
7.
This boundary is also called a Colliding or Crashing boundary.
a)
transform
b)
convergent
c)
divergent
8.
This boundary moves away from another boundary.
a)
divergent
b)
convergent
c)
transform
9.
Earthquakes typically occur _________________.
a)
In the middle of tectonic plates
b)
only in California
c)
only in the middle of the ocean
d)
ALL plate boundaries
10.
What kind of plate boundary is shown here?
a)
divergent
b)
convergent
c)
transform
d)
strike slip
11.
What is the term for one plate going UNDER?
a)
plate boundary
b)
submersion
c)
accretion
d)
subduction
12.
Plate movement is caused by ______________.
a)
the rotation of the Earth
b)
ocean tides
c)
Convection
d)
the moon's gravity
13.
A boundary where two plates move away from each other.
a)
convergent boundary
b)
divergent boundary
c)
transform boundary
d)
sergent boundary
14.
A boundary where two plates slide past each other.
a)
convergent boundary
b)
convergent boundary
c)
transform boundary
d)
sergent boundary
15.
A boundary where two plates collide into each other.
a)
convergent boundary
b)
divergent boundary
c)
transform boundary
d)
sergent boundary
16.
Which type of plate boundary would cause mountains to form
a)
Transform
b)
Convergent
c)
Divergent
d)
Reform
17.
The Great Rift Valley in Africa and the Mid-Ocean Ridge were all created by this boundary
a)
Divergent
b)
Convergent
c)
Reform
d)
Transform
18.
What are the two types of crust
a)
continental and oceanic
b)
ocean and upper
c)
lower and upper
d)
pizza and subway
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