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E.8.9A.5

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 2hrs 45mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A mid-ocean RIDGE is located at the boundary of two tectonic plates. Which diagram correctly models the relative plate motion on each side of a mid ocean ridge?

a)
b)
c)
d)
2.
What is formed when two continental plates collide?
a)
volcano
b)
mountain
c)
trench
d)
rift valley
3.
What is the boundary where two plates are moving together?
a)
Transform
b)
Divergent
c)
Convergent
4.
What boundary do plates slide past each other?
a)
Transform
b)
Divergent
c)
Convergent
d)
Nepal
5.
What boundary do plates move apart?
a)
Convergent
b)
Transform
c)
Divergent
6.
What is associated with transform boundaries?
a)
mountains
b)
volcanoes
c)
earthquakes
d)
islands
7.
What are the two types of crust?
a)
continental and oceanic
b)
ocean and basin
c)
lower and upper
d)
thick and thin
8.
What drives tectonic plate movement? 
a)
gravity
b)
coriolis effect
c)
convection currents
d)
the earth's magnetic core
9.
What type of plate boundary is this?
a)
Plate
b)
Divergent
c)
Convergent
d)
Transform
10.

Scientists recently discovered that rocks collected from the Franklin Mountains in West Tests and rocks collected from mountains in eastern Antarctica were exactly the same age. Further research showed that the rocks were chemically and geologically the same and came from the same magma source. This discovery provides evidence of--

a)

coastal erosion

b)

plate tectonics

c)

ocean currents

d)

glacial melting

11.

The image shows a plate boundary. Arrows have been added to indicate the movement of the plates.What plate boundary feature is also shown?

a)

A ridge formed by an inactive convergent boundary

b)

A valley forming at an active divergent boundary

c)

A fault forming at an active transform boundary

d)

A volcano formed by an active transform boundary

12.

Which of the following is NOT a tectonic boundary?

a)

Convergent

b)

Divergent

c)

Sedergent

d)

Transform

13.

This landform can occur at a divergent plate boundary.

a)

ocean trench

b)

mid-ocean ridge

c)

tall mountains

d)

transform fault

14.

Which of these events can ONLY happen on a DIVERGENT BOUNDARY?

a)

Rift Valley

b)

Mountain

c)

A peninsula

d)

An Insanely complex, long answer that you will click out of instinct.

15.

Process in which one layer of the crust goes below another one into the mantle.

a)

Seismic waves

b)

Crust

c)

Subduction

d)

Asthenosphere

16.

The upper most part of the mantle and the crust together form a hard layer colled the...

a)

Lithosphere

b)

Trench

c)

Mid-ocean ridge

d)

Asthenosphere

17.

The soft layer that is in between the mantle and the outer core is called the...

a)

Lithosphere

b)

Mid-ocean ridge

c)

Trench

d)

Asthenosphere

18.

Convergent boundaries are ____ processes, while divergent boundaries are ____ processes.

a)

A: Destructive, B: Gravitational

b)

A: Constructive, B: Destructive

c)

A: Gravitational, B: Destructive

19.

Which statement best describes the geologic process that is most likely responsible for the formation of mountains?

a)

They are along a transform plate boundary that is no longer active, so erosion is creating deep valleys.

b)

They are along a transform plate boundary in which plates are currently moving side by side, causing earthquakes and faults

c)

They are along a plate boundary in which plates are currently converging, causing uplift and steep slopes.

d)

They are along a plate boundary in which plates diverged in the distance past, allowing new rock to build up.

20.

The diagram shows a model of the movement of two tectonic plates. When the plates collide, on plate often moves below the other plate. The rising magma that can result from this type of plate movement may produce-

a)

fossil layers

b)

volcanic islands

c)

deep-sea sediment

d)

seafloor spreading

21.

The model below shows two continental plates. The folded mountains in this model form at which type of plate boundary?

a)

Transform boundary

b)

Divergent boundary

c)

Subduction boundary

d)

Convergent boundary