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Plate Tectonics: Cause and Effect

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
The type of plate boundary where two plates come together is a .....
a)
Convergent Boundary
b)
Divergent Boundary
c)
Transform Boundary
d)
Plate Boundary
2.
What kind of plate boundary is shown here?
a)
divergent
b)
convergent
c)
transform
d)
subducting
3.
What kind of plate boundary is shown here?
a)
divergent
b)
convergent
c)
transform
d)
strike slip
4.
Name the boundary
a)
convergent boundary
b)
divergent boundary
c)
transform boundary
d)
sergent boundary
5.
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
6.

Oceanic Trenches are formed by _______ plate boundaries

a)

Convergent

b)

Transform

c)

Plate

d)

Divergent

7.

Volcanoes can from from magma which comes from melted plates then pushed up at a __________ plate boundary

a)

Divergent

b)

Convergent

c)

Transform

8.

Large Mountains are created when....

a)

Two continental plates collide

b)

Two oceanic plates pull apart

c)

An Oceanic plate subducts under a Continental Plate

d)

Two continental plates pull apart

9.
The Great Rift Valley in Africa and the Mid-Ocean Ridge were all created by this boundary
a)
Divergent
b)
Convergent
c)
Reform
d)
Transform
10.

subduction zones in the ocean can create which features?

a)

deep ocean treanches

b)

volcanoes

c)

earthquakes

d)

all of the above

11.
Earthquakes and volcanoes are most likely found in which locations?
a)
At plate boundaries
b)
in oceans
c)
in the middle of continents
d)
in the middle of plates
12.
Most volcanoes and earthquakes occur...
a)
along the coast
b)
along tectonic plate boundaries
c)
in the Arctic
d)
in the ocean
13.
This landform can occur at a divergent plate boundary.
a)
ocean trench
b)
mid-ocean ridge
c)
tall mountains
d)
transform fault
14.

The Earth's _____________ in broken into pieces that shift and interact where they meet up.

a)

Crust

b)

Mantle

c)

Inner Core

d)

Outer Core

15.

What most likely causes volcanic activity and earthquakes in the middle of tectonic plates?

a)

Hotspots

b)

Transform Boundaries

c)

Convergent Boundaries

d)

Divergent Boundaries

16.

If we notice evidence of volcanic activity moving in the middle of a plate it is probably due to...

a)

a hotspot

b)

a transform boundary

c)

a convergent boundary

d)

a divergent boundary

17.

When two plates move away from each other the boundary is called...

a)

transform

b)

divergent

c)

convergent

d)

hotspot

18.

What type of boundary results in seafloor spreading and mid-ocean ridges?

a)

divergent

b)

hotspot

c)

convergent

d)

transform