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WorksheetsTectonic Plates Quiz
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 29mins
What is plate tectonics the study of?
Mantliec plates
Continental plates
Oceanic plates
Lithospheric plates
How dinner plattters interact with each other.
What are the two types of lithospheric plates?
*______________ and ______________
(a)
Continental plates...
Are more dense and thicker than oceanic plates.
Are less dense and not as thick as oceanic plates.
Are less dense and thicker than oceanic plates.
Are more dense and not as thick as oceanic plates.
Oceanic plates...
Are more dense and thicker than oceanic plates.
Are less dense and thicker than oceanic plates.
Are less dense and not as thick as oceanic plates.
Are more dense and not as thick as oceanic plates.
The process where the plate is recycled back into the mantle is called (a) .
*Use a capital letter!
What are the types of divergent boundaries? Select all that apply.
Oceanic-Oceanic
Continental-Continental
Oceanic-Continental
Cat.
What are the types of Convergent boundaries? Select all that apply.
Oceanic-Oceanic.
Continental-Continental
Oceanic-Continental
Stick bug.
What is a convergent boundary?
When two plates move towards each other
When two plates move apart from each other
When two plates move past each other in opposite directions.
A boundary caused by convection currents erupting from the Earth's core.
What are continental plates made out of?
(a)
What are oceanic plates made out of?
(a)
Draw what happens in a convergent oceanic-continental boundary.
Draw what happens in a divergent continental-continental boundary.
Draw what happens in a transform boundary.
What happens in a convergent continental-continental boundary.
Draw what happens in a convergent oceanic-oceanic boundary.
What happens in a divergent oceanic-oceanic boundary.
Earth's plates move as a result of what transfer of energy?
Subduction
Convection
Continental drift
Ocean ridge
Conduction
When plates slide past each other (transform boundary), it causes a shaking in the ground known as a/an _____________.
Volcano
Subduction
Earthquake
Eruption
Rift-valleys
What kind of plates move apart over the rising part of the convection current?
Continental
Oceanic
Lithospheric
True or False: A transform boundary is when two plates slide in opposite directions.
True
False
A transform boundary causes...
*Select all that apply.
Earthquakes
Things looking zig-zagged
Volcanoes
Mountains
True or false: A divergent oceanic-oceanic boundary example is the Marinara Trench
True
False
When oceanic-oceanic divergent plates move apart, what is the result?
Folded mountains
Earthquakes/faults
Sea-floor Spreading
