WorksheetsKJ Land Formations Quick Check
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What term best describes "a valley that forms at a divergent boundary and is usually flat, narrow, and has steep sides. "
a)
Rift Valley
b)
Crust
c)
Mountains
d)
Volcanic Island Arc
2.
What term best describes "an underwater mountain system formed by oceanic divergent boundaries and is caused by seafloor spreading."
a)
Rift Valley
b)
Fault
c)
Mid-oceanic ridge
d)
Continental crust
3.
What term best describes the following image:
a)
trench
b)
mountain
c)
peak
d)
subduction zone
4.
What term best describes the landform where the orange arrow is pointing in the following image:
a)
peak
b)
volcanic island arc
c)
relief
d)
hill
5.
How is a Volcanic Mountain Range formed?
a)
when molten rock erupts, and piles upon the surface by a convergent O-C boundary.
b)
breaks in the crust at a transform boundary
c)
when two continental plates drift away from each other
d)
when two tectonic plates slide past each other
6.
This is an image of what land form:
a)
fault
b)
trench
c)
contour interval
d)
mountain
7.
How is a Folded Mountain Ridge formed?
a)
the creation of new crust as magma rises and cools in an oceanic ridge
b)
two C-C plates drifting away from each other
c)
folded crusts caused by the moving of C-C crusts moving towards one another
8.
A Fault is which of the following?
a)
a long narrow valley
b)
Series of mountains
c)
breaks or crack in the Earth's crust where the plates are moving past each other
d)
dry land
9.
This picture shows what type of boundary? *Slide past
a)
Sea Floor spreading
b)
Divergent Boundary
c)
Convergent Boundary
d)
Transform Boundary
10.
This picture shows what type of boundary?*Divide
a)
Divergent Boundary
b)
Convergent Boundary
c)
Transform Boundary
11.
This picture shows what type of boundary?*Collide
a)
Transform Boundary
b)
Divergent Boundary
c)
Convergent Boundary
d)
Subduction zone
12.
There are three types of convergent boundaries: C-C, C-O, and O-O. What does the C and O stand for?
a)
constructive forces
b)
Continental and Ocean
c)
formations
d)
plates
13.
The best definition for Sea Floor spreading is:
a)
breaks in the crust
b)
a long narrow valley
c)
the creation of new crust as magma rises and cools in an oceanic ridge
d)
the Earth's crust broken into sections
14.
True or False: Crust that is located closer to the ridge along the divergent boundary is younger than the crust that is located farther away.
a)
True
b)
False
15.
There are two types of Divergent Boundaries: 1.Continental-Continental which cause rift valleys. 2.Continental-Oceanic. Continental-Oceanic Divergent boundaries will create what?
a)
mid-ocean ridge
b)
faults
c)
subduction zone
d)
mountains
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