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WorksheetsPlate Tectonics Boundary
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary?
a)
Subduction
b)
Induction
c)
Abduction
d)
Reduction
2.
_____________ is a plate boundary where two plates move away from each other.
a)
Convergent boundary
b)
Transform boundary
c)
Divergent boundary
d)
Insurgent boundary
3.
_____________ is when two plates move toward each other.
a)
Convergent boundary
b)
Allegiant boundary
c)
Transform boundary
d)
Sliding boundary
4.
A _____________ is when two plates move past each other in opposite directions.
a)
emergent boundary
b)
divergent boundary
c)
transform boundary
d)
convergent boundary
5.
A _________ is a valley that forms where two plates move apart.
a)
Fissure
b)
Rift valley
c)
Sea-floor spreading
d)
Fault
6.
one tectonic plate moves under another
a)
convergent plate boundary
b)
divergent plate boundary
c)
transform plate boundary
d)
subduction
7.
What type of boundary is in this image?
a)
convergent plate boundary
b)
divergent plate boundary
c)
transform plate boundary
d)
subduction
8.
What new feature forms at a convergent plate boundary where two continental plates collide?
a)
mid-ocean ridge
b)
trench
c)
mountain range
d)
none of these features form
9.
What forms at a convergent boundary between a continental plate and an oceanic plate?
a)
volcanoes
b)
rift valleys
c)
faults
d)
mid-ocean ridges
10.
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
11.
Which of the following causes Earth's tectonic plates to move?
a)
Energy from the Sun
b)
Magnetic Pole Reversal
c)
Convection currents in the mantle
d)
Faults in Mountain Ranges
12.
What type of plate boundary is the San Andreas fault?
a)
Convergent
b)
Divergent
c)
Transform
d)
Subduction
13.
What type of convergent boundary is the Himalayan mountain range?
a)
Continent-Continent
b)
Ocean-Continent
c)
Continent-Ocean
d)
Ocean-Ocean
14.
A deep area of the ocean floor where an oceanic plate is moving below a continental plate is a
a)
volcanic island arc
b)
trench
c)
rift valley
d)
ridge
15.
The part of the Earth on which the tectonic plates are able to move is the...
a)
lithosphere
b)
asthenosphere
c)
mesosphere
d)
subduction zone
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