WorksheetsPlate Tectonics - Mrs. Reisdorf
Total questions: 31
Worksheet time: 1hrs 2mins
The type of plate boundary where two plates come together is a .....
Convergent Boundary
Divergent Boundary
Transform Boundary
Plate Boundary
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.
What occurs when two plates come together and the denser one is forced under back into the mantle?
reduction
conduction
subduction
convection
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
What is the correct order (starting from the surface) of Earth’s layers?
crust, outer core, inner core, mantle
mantle, outer core, inner core, crust
crust, mantle, outer core, inner core
outer core, inner core, crust, mantle
Most geologists think that the movement of Earth’s plates is caused by _______
convection.
continental drift.
subduction.
conduction.
A place where two plates slip past each other, moving in opposite directions, is known as a _______
transform boundary
divergent boundary.
convergent boundary.
rift valley.
The place where two plates come together is known as a _______
transform boundary.
divergent boundary.
convergent boundary.
rift valley.
The San Andreas Fault in California is known as an active earthquake area. What type of
boundary is it?
Converging
Diverging
Transform
Sea Floor Spreading
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
Islands can from from magma which is pushed up at a __________ plate boundary
Divergent
Convergent
Transform
The outer layer of the Earth (the crust) is the...
Mantle
Asthenosphere
Lithosphere
Crust
