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Plate Interactions

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What forms when oceanic crust diverges?

a)

Mountain ranges

b)

Island arc

c)

New crust

d)

Mid-ocean ridges & new crust

2.

(a)   type of crust is thinner and denser.

3.

At mid-ocean ridges....

a)

the crust is older

b)

sea-floor spreading occurs

c)

oceanic lithosphere is destroyed

d)

tectonic plates are colliding

4.

What forms when continental crust diverges?

a)

Islands

b)

Rift valleys & new crust

c)

Volcanoes

d)

Folded Mountains

5.

The picture is an example of what kind of plate boundary?

a)

Uplifting

b)

Transform

c)

Convergent

d)

Divergent

6.

A subduction zone is where two plates do what?

a)

Collide and one is pushed under and melted

b)

Spread apart to form new crust.

c)

Collide and form mountains.

d)

Separate and form new continents.

7.

At transform plate boundaries...

a)

the plates collide

b)

the plates divide

c)

the plates slide past each other

d)

None of the above

8.

Draw where you would expect to see a volcanic mountain range

9.

What forms when 2 oceanic plates converge?

a)

Sea floor spreading

b)

trenches and volcanic island arcs

c)

rift valleys

d)

Mountain ranges form in the ocean

10.

What forms when an ocean plate and continental plate converge?

a)

Subduction creates volcanic mountain ranges.

b)

Sea-floor spreading.

c)

Rift Valleys

d)

Subduction creates volcanic island arcs.

11.

What forms when 2 continental plates converge?

a)

Volcanoes

b)

Rift Valleys

c)

Folded Mountains

d)

Islands

12.

Convection currents occur in the _____?

a)

Mantle

b)

Lithosphere

c)

Asthenosphere

d)

Crust

13.

When a heavier, more dense plate slides under a less dense plate within a subduction zone, it is called

a)

tectonic plate drag

b)

convection

c)

ridge push

d)

slab pull

14.

What feature occurs at transform boundaries?

a)

Earthquakes

b)

Rift valleys

c)

Volcanoes

d)

Mountains

15.

The orange and red stripes show normal magnetic patterns, what do the white stripes represent?

a)

normal magnetism in the asthenosphere

b)

normal magnetism in the lithosphere

c)

magnetic reversal in the asthenosphere

d)

magnetic reversal in the lithosphere