WorksheetsPlate Tectonics
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 27mins
The type of plate boundary where two plates come together is a .....
Convergent Boundary
Divergent Boundary
Transform Boundary
Plate Boundary
Which of the following causes Earth's tectonic plates to move?
Energy from the Sun
Magnetic Pole Reversal
Convection currents in the mantle
Faults in Mountain Ranges
What type of event will occur at this boundary?
Earthquake
Volcano Eruption
Tornado
Mountain Building
A divergent boundary occurs when plates ....
Pull apart
Come together
Slide past each other
subducting
Which of the following is the name of the ancient supercontinent formed 28 Million Years ago.
Pangea
Gondwanda
Laurasia
Neverland
Mountains are created when....
Two continental plates collide
Two oceanic plates pull apart
An Oceanic plate subducts under a Continental Plate
Two continental plates pull apart
The Great Rift Valley in Africa and the Mid-Ocean Ridge were all created by this boundary
Divergent
Convergent
Reform
Transform
Which of these events can ONLY happen on a DIVERGENT BOUNDARY?
Rift Valley
Mountain
A peninsula
An Insanely complex, long answer that you will click out of instinct.
The tectonic plates float on the
lithosphere
lower mantle
outer core
asthenosphere
What occurs when two plates come together and the denser one is forced under back into the mantle?
reduction
conduction
subduction
convection
Most geologists rejected Alfred Wegener's idea of continental drift because...
it did not agree with their current theory
Wegener was interested in what Earth was like millions of years ago
Wegener used several different types of evidence to support his hypothesis
Wegener could not identify the force that moved the continents
The youngest rocks on the seafloor are most likely found...
closest to a mid-ocean ridge
farthest from a mid-ocean ridge
near the coastlines
closest to a deep sea trench
Rising magma that results from subduction may produce...
fossil layers
volcanic island arcs
deep-sea sediment
seafloor spreading
What do volcanic island arcs indicate about the plate tectonics in the region?
a converging plate boundary
a diverging plate boundary
a transform plate boundary
new seafloor being created
What geologic process formed the Himalayas?
two continental plates converging
an earthquake in a subduction zone
a tectonic plate moving over a hot spot
movement at a transform fault boundary
