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Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 15mins
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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 a continental and oceanic plate?
a)
Mountains
b)
Volcanoes
c)
Mid-Ocean Ridge
d)
Rift
3.
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
4.
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
5.
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
6.
What is happening at this boundary?
a)
A rift valley forms
b)
Mountains are building
c)
The ocean is sinking
d)
Volcanoes form
7.
What feature is formed by this boundary type?
a)
Ocean trenches
b)
San Andreas fault
c)
Andes Mountains
d)
Lake Erie
8.
What feature is is created at a subduction zone?
a)
Mid-Atlantic Ridge
b)
Volcanic Mountains
c)
Rocky Mountains
d)
Great Rift Valley
9.
A subduction zone is a __________ boundary.
a)
transform
b)
divergent
c)
convergent
d)
transferring
10.
What feature is shown by the arrows?
a)
Mid-Atlantic Ridge
b)
Himalayan Mountains
c)
San Andreas Fault
d)
Andes Mountains
11.
When an underwater earthquake causes a giant wave to come ashore, that wave is known as a...
a)
seismic wave
b)
shearing
c)
focus wave
d)
tsunami
12.
Earthquakes are caused by...
a)
seismic gaps
b)
sudden movement of water
c)
too much drilling along plate boundaries
d)
sudden movements of rock along a fault
13.
Most volcanoes and earthquakes occur...
a)
along the coast
b)
along tectonic plate boundaries
c)
in the Arctic
d)
in the ocean
14.
The area where two tectonic plates meet.
a)
mantle
b)
focus
c)
plate boundary
d)
convection
15.
What type of boundary is the SAN ANDREAS FAULT on?
a)
Covergent
b)
Transformers
c)
Divergent
d)
Transform
16.
What is the name of the plate boundary that slides past each other?
a)
Divergent
b)
Convergent
c)
Transform
d)
Mr. C the Slide Man
17.
What is happening at Z?
a)
mid-ocean ridge
b)
subduction zone
c)
transform boundary
d)
sea floor spreading
18.
Name the boundary
a)
Divergent
b)
Convergent
c)
Transform
19.
What technology was used during WWII to detect enemy submarines and produce the first map of the seafloor?
a)
Sonar
b)
Radar
c)
GPS
20.
What is D?
a)
magma
b)
upper mantle
c)
lava
d)
convection
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