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Types of Plate Boundaries and Resulting Landforms
Types of Plate Boundaries and Resulting Landforms
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Conservative, destructive and constructive plate boundary movements.
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1
What process is happening in this image?
Sea-Floor Spreading
Earthquake
Rift Valley formation
Subduction
2
One plate is sliding under another in this diagram. This is known as .....
Slippage
Suduction
Suction
Subduction
3
Which land form would NOT be formed as a result of this type of plate boundary ?
Rift Valley
Mountain range
Mid-Ocean Ridge
4
Tsunamis, like the Boxing Day Tsunami, are caused by sudden motion on the ocean floor at which type of boundary?
divergent boundary
convergent boundary
transform boundary
tectonic boundary
5
Rift valleys, like the Great Rift Valley or Lake Superior, occur at which type of boundary?
transform boundary
tectonic boundary
divergent boundary
convergent boundary
6
Which land form would NOT be formed as a result of this type of plate boundary ?
Mid-Ocean ridges
Ocean trench
Mountain range
Volcanoes
7
Mid-ocean ridges, like the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, occur at which type of boundary?
divergent boundary
convergent boundary
transform boundary
tectonic boundary
8
The diagram below is of which type of plate boundary ?
Divergent
Convergent
Transform
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What type of plate boundary is this ?
Convergent
Subduction
Tranform
Divergent
10
Faults, like the San Andreas Fault in California, occur at which type of boundary?
convergent boundary
tectonic boundary
transform boundary
divergent boundary
11
Volcanoes, like the Mount Saint Helens, often occur at which type of boundary?
transform boundary
divergent boundary
convergent boundary
tectonic boundary
12
What are 2 types of plates covering the Earth ?
Laurasia and Gondwana
Oceanic and Continental
Ocean and Country
Land and Water
13
Hawaii is in the middle of the Pacific Plate and not at a plate boundary. How is it they are volcanic islands?
They do occur at a plate boundary.
Hawaii is a chain of hot spot volcanoes in the middle of a plate.
Ocean currents created the islands.
14
Ocean trenches, like the Mariana Trench, occur at which type of boundary?
transform boundary
convergent boundary
divergent boundary
tectonic boundary
15
Earth's lithosphere is broken up into .....
Plates
Tiles
Slates
Walls
16
Continental Plates are older than Oceanic Plates. True or False ?
False
True
They are both the same age
17
Mountain ranges, like the Himalayas in Nepal, occur at which type of boundary?
tectonic boundary
convergent boundary
divergent boundary
transform boundary
18
Earthquakes, such as the Haiti Earthquake of 2010, often occur at which type of plate boundary?
convergent boundary
transform boundary
divergent boundary
tectonic boundary
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The plates are moved by ?? in the mantle.
Convection Currents
Pangea
Gondwana
Laurasia
