Unit 10: Plate Tectonics Test

What kind of rock fold describes where the oldest rock layers are located in the fold's center?

Which of the following is a process that occurs at a divergent plate boundary?

Why do the dots on map tend to form a long curving line along western edge of Pacific Ocean?

Which geological event is caused by movement of tectonic plates?

Which of the following land features is caused by the movement of tectonic plates?

Which volcanic feature forms a relatively small depression around a volcano's vent?

What is the primary way in which folded mountains form?

What causes an earthquake to happen?

Which of the following statements accurately describes Pangaea?

Vents are long cracks in the ground. What type of crack is the earth's surface called?

Which statement below accurately describes a tectonic plate?

Which type of volcano is made mostly of pyroclastic materials?

What type of motion happens in a normal fault?

How could tectonic plate motion cause such a deformation?

Which of the following is a process that occurs at divergent plate boundaries?

What process causes hot, solid rock to rise through the mantle at hot spots?

What happens at a tectonic plate boundary?

What happens when tectonic plates move within the pattern of subduction?

After molten material flows over and over out of earth's vents, what will form on surface?

Earth's lithosphere is separated into several major tectonic plates. Name them