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Plate boundaries and Tectonic Forces

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 4mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What type of plate boundary creates new sea floor?

a)

Divergent

b)

Convergent

c)

Transform

d)

Subduction

2.

Which crust subducts because it is denser than other crust?

a)

pizza crust

b)

oceanic crust

c)

continental crust

d)

new crust

3.

What type of landforms would you find near a subduction zone?

a)

rifts and valley

b)

mountains and new seafloor

c)

trenches and volcanoes

d)

volcanoes and glaciers

4.

The theory that states that pieces of Earth's crust are in constant, slow motion is the theory of...

a)

continental eruption

b)

plate boundaries

c)

plate tectonics

d)

lithospheric drift

5.

When two continental plates collide, neither one is subducted, and the plates buckle and fold.

a)

Transform

b)

Subduction

c)

Collision

d)

Divergent

6.

A fracture in earth's crust is a

a)

tsunami

b)

fault

c)

Ring of Fire

d)

epicenter

7.

Tectonic stress that squeezes rocks together,

a)

compression

b)

tension

c)

adhesion

d)

delusion

8.

Occur when opposing forces cause rock to break and move horizontally.

a)

strike slip fault

b)

normal fault

c)

reverse fault

d)

boundary fault

9.

_______force stretch or pull rock layers from opposite directions. It is the opposite of compression.

a)

compression

b)

tension

c)

shearing

d)

none of the above

10.

________ forces make rock layers slide past each other.

a)

tension

b)

shearing

c)

compression

d)

none of the above