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WorksheetsPlate Tectonics: Cause and Effect
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 13mins
Oceanic Trenches are formed by _______ plate boundaries
Convergent
Transform
Plate
Divergent
Volcanoes can from from magma which comes from melted plates then pushed up at a __________ plate boundary
Divergent
Convergent
Transform
Large 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
subduction zones in the ocean can create which features?
deep ocean treanches
volcanoes
earthquakes
all of the above
The Earth's _____________ in broken into pieces that shift and interact where they meet up.
Crust
Mantle
Inner Core
Outer Core
What most likely causes volcanic activity and earthquakes in the middle of tectonic plates?
Hotspots
Transform Boundaries
Convergent Boundaries
Divergent Boundaries
If we notice evidence of volcanic activity moving in the middle of a plate it is probably due to...
a hotspot
a transform boundary
a convergent boundary
a divergent boundary
When two plates move away from each other the boundary is called...
transform
divergent
convergent
hotspot
What type of boundary results in seafloor spreading and mid-ocean ridges?
divergent
hotspot
convergent
transform
