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WorksheetsMovement of Plates
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
When tectonic plates move away from each other it is called?
Convergent Boundaries
Transform Boundaries
Divergent Boundaries
What could be the reason for a rift valley to be formed?
Two tectonic plates collide to each other.
Two plates slide past each other.
Two tectonic plates move apart from each other.
______ are underwater vents or fissures in the Earth's surface from which magma can erupt.
Underwater Volcanoes
Submarine Volcanoes
Sea Volcanoes
Sub-aquatic Volcanoes
Which of the following is not formed in the convergent plate boundaries
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Folds
Rift valleys
It is a structural trap formed by the folding of rock strata into an arch-like shape
Syncline
Monocline
Anticline
Antiformal
What formation is formed when tectonic processes put stress on a rock, and the rock bends, instead of breaking.
Fold
Fault
Mountain Ranges
Volcanoes
In a ___ fault, the block above the fault moves up relative to the block below the fault.
Normal
Transcurrent
Strike-slip
Reverse
Trenches are formed in a process called?
Subduction
Seafloor spreading
Ridge-push
Reverse faulting is associated with crustal shortening, and so can be found at what plate boundaries?
Convergent boundaries
Divergent boundaries
Transform boundaries
A ____ is formed in the Earth's crust as a brittle response to stress.
Fold
Fault
Trenches
Rift Valleys
____are cracks in the earth’s crust along which there is movement.
Fold
Faults
Volcanoes
Trenches
The ____ of the tectonic plates causes magma to break through the crust, which is the cause of a volcanoes birth.
Colliding
Converging
Diverging
Overlapping
Where does Subduction takes place?
Mariana Trench
Pacific Ocean
Mid-Atlantic Ridge
The movement of tectonic plates create 5 types of Plate boundaries.
True
False
Mountain ranges are formed when two or more tectonic plates collide or pushed together, And It is also caused by a process called " (a) ."
