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WorksheetsPlate Boundaries
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 10mins
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Class
Date
1.
What would you be most likely to find at a transform boundary?
a)
Earthquakes
b)
Volcanoes
c)
Mountains
d)
Rift
2.
What would you be most likely to find at a convergent boundary between two pieces of oceanic crust?
a)
Mountains
b)
Rift
c)
Mid-Ocean Ridge
d)
Island Arc
3.
What would you be most likely to find at a convergent boundary between a continental and oceanic plate?
a)
Mountains
b)
Volcanoes
c)
Mid-Ocean Ridge
d)
Rift
4.
What would you be most likely to find at a divergent boundary between two pieces of oceanic crust?
a)
Rift
b)
Mid-Ocean Ridge
c)
Island Arc
d)
Flat land
5.
What would you be most likely to find at a divergent boundary between two pieces of continental crust?
a)
Mid-Ocean Ridge
b)
Mountain
c)
Rift
d)
Island Arc
6.
What would you be most likely to find at a convergent boundary between two pieces of continental crust?
a)
Volcano
b)
Mountain
c)
Rift
d)
Island Arc
7.
Which of the following statements is false?
a)
Oceanic crust is made of basalt
b)
Oceanic crust is thinner than continental crust
c)
Oceanic crust is less dense than continental crust
d)
Oceanic crust is younger than continental crust
8.
A subduction zone is formed...
a)
when one tectonic plate sinks below another
b)
at every type of convergent plate boundary
c)
at every type of divergent plate boundary
d)
at transform boundaries
9.
Which of the following words/phrases would correctly fill in the blank?
Continental Drift and Sea-floor spreading were combined into the new more recent theory of ___________.
Continental Drift and Sea-floor spreading were combined into the new more recent theory of ___________.
a)
Hess
b)
Pangaea
c)
Plate Tectonics
d)
Wegener
10.
A. Wegener believed that all the continents were connected at one time. What did he call this one large land mass?
a)
Pancakes
b)
Pangaea
c)
Pancreas
d)
Patches
11.
Who came up with the idea of Continental Drift?
a)
Alfred Wagon
b)
Albert Wegener
c)
Alfred Wegener
d)
Albert Wagoner
12.
Earthquakes typically occur _________________.
a)
In the middle of tectonic plates
b)
only in California
c)
only in the middle of the ocean
d)
along plate boundaries
13.
What kind of plate boundary is shown here?
a)
divergent
b)
convergent
c)
transform
d)
strike slip
14.
What is the term for a heavier, denser plate sliding under a less dense plate?
a)
plate boundary
b)
submersion
c)
accretion
d)
subduction
15.
The part solid-part liquid layer that is located directly under the lithosphere is known as the ____________.
a)
lithosphere
b)
asthenosphere
c)
atmosphere
d)
photosphere
16.
An ocean trench occurs when...
a)
plates divide and magma rises up
b)
oceanic crust subducts below continental crust
c)
we dig a hole in the ocean
d)
when plates slide past each other
17.
What process is occurring at Z?
a)
Convection currents
b)
Subduction
c)
Two plates moving apart
d)
New ocean floor forming
18.
Name this Boundary type
a)
Convergent boundary
b)
Divergent Boundary
c)
Transform
d)
Equal Arm Balance
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