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Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 21mins
Name
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.
Which of the following statements is false?
a)
Continental crust is less dense than oceanic crust
b)
Continental crust is younger than oceanic crust
c)
Continental crust is made of granite
d)
Continental crust is thicker than oceanic crust
9.
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
10.
Whenever a subduction zone is formed a ______ is formed.
a)
Mountain
b)
Island Arc
c)
Rift
d)
Volcano
11.
What would you be most likely to find at a transform boundary?
a)
Earthquakes
b)
Volcanoes
c)
Mountains
d)
Rift
12.
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
13.
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
14.
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
15.
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
16.
What is happening at this boundary?
a)
A rift valley forms
b)
Mountains are building
c)
The ocean is sinking
d)
Volcanoes form
17.
What feature is formed by this boundary type?
a)
Ocean trenches
b)
San Andreas fault
c)
Andes Mountains
d)
Lake Erie
18.
What feature is is created at a subduction zone?
a)
Mid-Atlantic Ridge
b)
Volcanic Mountains
c)
Rocky Mountains
d)
Great Rift Valley
19.
A subduction zone is a __________ boundary.
a)
transform
b)
divergent
c)
convergent
d)
transferring
20.
What feature is shown by the arrows?
a)
Mid-Atlantic Ridge
b)
Himalayan Mountains
c)
San Andreas Fault
d)
Andes Mountains
21.
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
22.
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
23.
Most volcanoes and earthquakes occur...
a)
along the coast
b)
along tectonic plate boundaries
c)
in the Arctic
d)
in the ocean
24.
The area where two tectonic plates meet.
a)
mantle
b)
focus
c)
plate boundary
d)
convection
25.
What type of boundary is the SAN ANDREAS FAULT on?
a)
Covergent
b)
Transformers
c)
Divergent
d)
Transform
26.
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
27.
What is happening at Z?
a)
mid-ocean ridge
b)
subduction zone
c)
transform boundary
d)
sea floor spreading
28.
Name the boundary
a)
Divergent
b)
Convergent
c)
Transform
29.
What technology was used during WWII to detect enemy submarines and produce the first map of the seafloor?
a)
Sonar
b)
Radar
c)
GPS
30.
What is D?
a)
magma
b)
upper mantle
c)
lava
d)
convection
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