WorksheetsPlate Boundaries
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What kind of plate boundary is shown here?
a)
divergent
b)
convergent
c)
transform
d)
strike slip
2.
What kind of plate boundary is shown here?
a)
divergent
b)
convergent
c)
transform
d)
strike slip
3.
What kind of plate boundary is shown here?
a)
divergent
b)
convergent
c)
transform
d)
strike slip
4.
When an oceanic plate is subducted under a continental plate, a deep valley is formed in the ocean. What is this valley called?
a)
a trench
b)
a rift zone
c)
ocean spreading ridge
d)
Continental crust
5.
What geologic feature/event would you most likely to find at a convergent boundary between two pieces of continental crust?
a)
Volcano
b)
Mountain
c)
Rift
d)
Island Arc
6.
What geologic feature/event would you most likely to find at a divergent boundary between two pieces of oceanic crust?
a)
Rift Valley
b)
Mid-Ocean Ridge
c)
Island Arc
d)
Flat land
7.
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
8.
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
9.
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
10.
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
11.
Which of the following statements is false?
a)
Oceanic crust is made of rock
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
12.
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
13.
Whenever a subduction zone is formed a ______ is formed.
a)
Mountain
b)
Island Arc
c)
Rift
d)
Volcano
14.
Hot magma can rise at a subduction zone, and break through the crust in a...
a)
volcano
b)
earthquake
c)
tsunami
d)
hurricane
15.
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
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