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Plate Tectonics & Plate Boundaries
Plate Tectonics & Plate Boundaries
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Review of Chapter 6. The review will focus on key foundations of plate tectonics.
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1
The outermost layer of Earth that includes the crust & upper mantle is called _____. It makes up the tectonic plates.
Oceanic
Lithosphere
Mantle
Inner Core
2
The picture is an example of what kind of plate boundary?
Convergent
Transform
Uplifting
Divergent
3
Which type of crust is more
dense
?
Continental
Oceanic
Antarctic
M.O.R.s
4
The picture is an example of what kind of plate boundary?
Transform
Collision
Divergent
Convergent
5
When an oceanic and a continental plates converge, which landforms are created?
Rift Valley and Mid-Ocean Ridge
Trench and Volcanic Mountain Range
Fault Line and Mountain Range
Trench and Volcanic Island Arc
6
At Mid-Ocean Ridges. . . . .
two oceanic plates diverge
two oceanic plates converge
two continental plates converge
two continental plates diverge
7
What are two different types of crust?
Laurasia/Gondwana
Continental/Oceanic
Nazca/Eurasian
Lithosphere/Mesosphere
8
The Great Rift Valley is an example of what type of plate boundary?
Continental - Continental Divergence
Oceanic - Continental Convergence
Continental - Continenal Convergence
Oceanic - Oceanic Divergence
9
Scientists think movement of tectonic plates is caused by which of the following processes?
Conduction
Convection Currents
Radiation
None of these
10
Convection currents occur in the ____________.
Inner Core
Atmosphere
Lithosphere
Asthenosphere
11
A subduction zone is where two plate do what?
Spread apart to form new crust.
Collide and one is pushed under and destroyed.
Separate and form new continents.
Collide and form mountains.
12
True or False: When two continental plates collide, mountain ranges are formed.
False
True
13
What landform is created when two oceanic plates diverge?
Mariana Trench
Magnetic Reversals
Subduction Zones
Mid-Ocean Ridges
14
Island arcs are formed when
Oceanic - Oceanic Convergence
Oceanic - Continental Convergence
Continental - Continental Diverence
Oceanic - Oceanic Divergence
15
What plate boundaries are responsible for earthquakes?
Convergent
All three
Divergent
Transform
16
The picture is an example of what kind of plate boundary?
Convergent
Transform
Breakage
Divergent
17
Continental-Continental,Oceanic-Oceanic,Continental-Oceanic are what plate boundary type?
Divergent
Convergent
Transform
