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WorksheetsPlate boundaries and Tectonic Forces
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 4mins
What type of plate boundary creates new sea floor?
Divergent
Convergent
Transform
Subduction
Which crust subducts because it is denser than other crust?
pizza crust
oceanic crust
continental crust
new crust
What type of landforms would you find near a subduction zone?
rifts and valley
mountains and new seafloor
trenches and volcanoes
volcanoes and glaciers
The theory that states that pieces of Earth's crust are in constant, slow motion is the theory of...
continental eruption
plate boundaries
plate tectonics
lithospheric drift
When two continental plates collide, neither one is subducted, and the plates buckle and fold.
Transform
Subduction
Collision
Divergent
A fracture in earth's crust is a
tsunami
fault
Ring of Fire
epicenter
Tectonic stress that squeezes rocks together,
compression
tension
adhesion
delusion
Occur when opposing forces cause rock to break and move horizontally.
strike slip fault
normal fault
reverse fault
boundary fault
_______force stretch or pull rock layers from opposite directions. It is the opposite of compression.
compression
tension
shearing
none of the above
________ forces make rock layers slide past each other.
tension
shearing
compression
none of the above
