What type of boundary is this?

Continental Continental Divergence, Divergence

Rocks found along divergent boundaries are youngest away from the plate boundary

False - rocks are younger closer to the boundary

Identify the type of convergent boundary movement

Continental-Continental convergence

What is this boundary?

Continental and Continental Convergence

Which observations supported Wegener's theory of Continental Drift?

Similar fossils and rocks found oceans apart

Seafloor spreading occurs when two plates

are moving away from each other creating ridges

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1
What is the make up of the lithosphere
Upper mantle & outer core
Lower mantle & inner core
Crust & lower mantle
Crust & upper mantle
2
What type of Plate Boundary movement causes these earthquakes on the San Andreas Fault?
Divergent
Convergent
Subduction Zones
Transform
3
Tectonic forces can cause rocks to fold. What kind of stress causes folding?
Normal Stress
Tension
Compression
Shear Stress
4
The theory that states that pieces of Earth's crust are in constant, slow motion is called
The theory of plate boundaries
The theory of continental drift
The theory of Pangaea
The theory of plate tectonics
5
Which of the following is happening at B in the picture?
a fault-block mountain
mid-ocean ridge
a folded mountain
a volcano
6
Where is the newest crust located?
B & C
A
B & A
A & C
7
Identify the type of boundary movement
Transform
Divergent
Convergent
8
What is the name of the land feature created when continental & continental collide?
Volcanic mountains
Folded mountains
ridges
Trenches
9
What type of boundary is shown?
deep-sea sediment
divergent
transform
convergent
10
The lithosphere consists of:
the crust and upper mantle
the upper mantle and the lithosphere
the inner mantle and the core
the crust and lower mantle
11
The process that continually adds new crust is...
Subduction
Sea floor spreading
Convection
Earthquakes
12
What type of boundary is this?
Continental Continental Divergence
Oceanic and Oceanic Divergence
Divergence
Convergence
13
Which events are associated with transform plate boundaries?
Trenches & Island Arcs
Faults & Earthquakes
Folded mountains
Volcanoes & Sea Floor Spreading
14
Where are nearly all mountains found?
At plate boundaries
On land
Antarctica
15
Rocks found along divergent boundaries are youngest away from the plate boundary
True - rocks are younger as you move away from the boundary
False - rocks are younger closer to the boundary
16
When 2 plates move apart it is called a _____________ boundary.
Divergent
Personal
Convergent
Transform
17
Hypothesis that states that the continents once formed a single Landmass then broke apart:
Continental Drift
Plate Movement
Laurasia
Lithosphere Displacement
18
When 2 plates slide past one another horizontally, we call this a ________________ boundary.
Convergent
Transform
Subduction
Divergent
19
The Himalayan mountains are the result of a convergent boundary involving...
2 oceanic plates
a dinner plate and a desert plate
2 continental plates
an oceanic plate and a continental plate
20
Caused in a fluid by the hotter less dense material to rise, & colder material to sink
divergent
Subduction
Convergent
Convection
21
What kind of plate boundary is shown in the picture
transform
divergent
convergent
karst topography
22
This plate is:
Convergent
Divergent
Transform
23
When one plate pushes underneath another plate it is called a...
Transform Boundary
Subduction Zone
Divergent Boundary
Asthenosphere
24
What plate boundaries are responsible for earthquakes?
Convergent
Transform
All three
Divergent
25
Land features such as island arcs, trenches, volacanos, earthquakes occur
along plate boundaries
Africa only
anywhere on earth, it's random!
Ring of Fire only
26
If two plates are sliding past each other it's called...
Convergent boundary
Divergent boundary
Transform boundary
27
Identify the type of boundary movement
Convergent
Transform
Divergent
28
What type of movement occurred at the South American plate and the African Plate
Convergent
Divergent
Transform
29
What type of plate boundary is shown
unknown
transform
divergent
convergent
30
What type of land feature is shown in the picture?
Mariana Trench
Africa's Rift Valley
Mid Atlantic Ridge
Himalayan Mtns
31
This plate is:
Divergent
Convergent
Transform
32
What is this type of boundary?
Divergent
Convergent
Slip Fault
Transform
33
Identify the type of convergent boundary movement
Oceanic-Oceanic convergence
Oceanic-Continental convergence
Continental-Continental convergence
34
The lithosphere can be ______ at plate boundaries.
Created
Nothing can happen
Destroyed
All of these
35
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is an example of what kind of Plate Boundary.
Convergent
Transform
Divergent
Oceanic
36
A series of water waves caused by the displacement of a large volume of body water
Water
Tsunami
Volcanic eruption
Explosion
37
Plates that slide past one another are called...
Constructive
Divergent
Transform
Convergent
38
Heat rises from the Earth's core up into the ______ to power the ______cycles.
ocean, tsunami
crust, heat
lithosphere, continental crust
mantle, convection
39
What is this boundary?
Continental and Oceanic Convergence
Continental and Continental Convergence
Oceanic and Oceanic convergence
Continental and Continental Divergence
40
Volcanoes that form along a mid-ocean ridge occur at a diverging plate boundary.
True
False
41
The lithosphere is BELOW the asthenosphere
True
False
42
What type of convergent boundary is shown?
continental continental
ocean oceanic
transform
oceanic continental
43
Fault lines can cause
Earthquakes
Hurricanes
Rain
Tornadoes
44
Sudden violent movement of the earth's surface
Landslide
Hurricane
Avalanche
Earthquake
45
In sea-floor spreading, where is newer rock found?
Near the trench
Near the ridge
Near the mantle
Near the surface of the ocean
46
Which process destroys crust?
Subduction
Seafloor Spreading
Law of Conservation of Mass
convection current
47
What type of land feature is found at this plate boundary?
folded mountains
Island Arcs
Volcanic Mountains
faults
48
Which observations supported Wegener's theory of Continental Drift?
Volcanoes erupt frequently in Ring of Fire
Age of seafloor increases with distance
Similar fossils and rocks found oceans apart
Himalayas continue to grow
49
Seafloor spreading occurs when two plates
When one plate subducts beneath another less dense one
are colliding into each other
are moving away from each other creating ridges
slip passed each other creating earthquakes
50
The process of plate movement within the earth
Subduction
Convection
Plate Boundary
Plate Tectonics
51
The outermost rigid layer of Earth that includes the crust and the upper mantle is called _____
Mantle
Oceanic
Inner Core
Lithosphere
52
An Oceanic Plate going under another Oceanic Plate is an example of what type of Plate Boundary
Convergent
Transform
Oceanic Crust
Divergent
53
When ocean and continental plates collide, which plate subducts beneath the other?
oceanic it's less dense
continental it's less dense
oceanic it's more dense
neither
54
Where is the oldest crust located?
None of the above
D
A
C
55
Which term names the super-continent from about 200 million years ago?
Pangea
Disney Land
Tectonic
Wegener
56
Volcanic island arcs form as a result of...
diverging continental plates
converging oceanic plates
diverging oceanic plates
converging continental plates
57
What type of boundary is this?
Continental and Oceanic Convergence
Continental and Oceanic Divergence
Continental and Continental Convergence
Convergence
58
Convection currents in the mantle leads to movement in the __________.
Earth's core
Asthenosphere
Pacific Ocean
Lithosphere
59
Evidence for continental drift includes how similar the coast line is of these two continents:
Australia and Antarctica
N. America and S. America
S. America and Africa
Africa and N. America
60
Which process builds up or makes more crust?
Subductions
Shearing
Karst Topography
Seafloor spreading
61
What is a tectonic plate?
Segments of oceanic crust
A portion of continental matter
A block of mantle
A block of lithosphere
62
Most of earth's volcanos are formed from
Meteorites that strike the earth
meeting or separating of plates
glacial melting
sediment build up
63
This plate is:
Transform
Convergent
Divergent
64
Identify the type of boundary movement
Transform
Convergent
Divergent
65
The picture is an example of what kind of plate boundary?
Convergent
Transform
Divergent
Breakage
66
Scientists think movement of tectonic plates is caused by which of the following processes?
Radiation
None of these
GPS
Convection Currents
67
Continental-Continental,Oceanic-Oceanic,Continental-Oceanic are what plate boundary type?
Divergent
Convergent
Transform
68
Convections Current is the force the drives plate movement, it occurs in the
Lithosphere of the mantle
outer core
Lithosphere
asthenosphere of the mantle
69
The Himalayas were formed by which type of plate boundary movement
Transform
Divergence
Convergence
70
The San Andreas fault is an example of a...
Transform boundary
Convergent boundary
Really fun (but very inappropriate) video game
Divergent boundary
71
What is subduction?
When one plate slides under another
When 2 plates collide
When one plate is too old and collapses
When 2 plates slide past each other
72
In a convection current, heat tends to:
Fall
Rise
Float
Sink
73
What is Seafloor Spreading?
Magma flowing up and outward creating new crust in the ocean
Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Oceanic Plates
The Moon
74
Convergent plate boundaries occur where tectonic plates...
Move Towards each other
Move Apart
Grind Past Each Other
75
Transform plate boundaries occur where tectonic plates...
Grind Past Each Other
Move Apart
Move Together
76
What adds more crust to the sea floor?
Ring of Fire
Trenches
Sea-floor spreading
Magnetic Stripe
77
The bending of a plate of the earth's crust into the mantle beneath another plate is called
Subduction
Convection
Volcano
Mid-Ocean Ridge
78
Why wasn't Alfred Wegener's Continental Drift Theory accepted by the science community?
The evidence did not make any sense
People felt that there wasn't enough evidence
He could not explain how the plates moved
people are closed minded
79
Divergent plate boundaries occur where tectonic plates...
Grind Past Each Other
Move Together
Move Apart
80
Seafloor spreading occurs when two plates
are moving away from each other creating ridges
slip passed each other creating earthquakes
are colliding into each other
When one plate subducts beneath another less dense one
81
What type of plates are located under land?
Oceanic
Continents
Continental
Lithosphere
82
Ocean trenches form at ____________ boundaries.
Whaaaa?
Transform
Convergent
Divergent
83
Which feature is associated with divergent boundaries?
The Hawaiian Islands
The San Andreas Fault
The Himalayan Mountains
The mid-Atlantic ridge
84
The lithosphere is ONLY made up of the rock that makes continents
FALSE
TRUE
85
The picture is an example of what kind of plate boundary?
Transform
Divergent
Collision
Convergent
86
Rocks found along divergent boundaries are youngest away from the plate boundary
False - rocks are younger closer to the boundary
True - rocks are younger as you move away from the boundary
87
What are most earthquakes associated with?
rift valleys
mid-ocean ridges
plate boundaries
divergent plate boundaries
88
What creates a volcanic island arc?
Oceanic plate & oceanic plate
Continental plate &continental plate
Oceanic plate & continental plate
89
What is this plate boundary?
Oceanic and Oceanic Divergence
Transform
Oceanic and Oceanic Convergence
Oceanic and Continental Divergence
90
What is this boundary?
Oceanic and Oceanic Divergence
Continental and Continental Convergence
Oceanic and Oceanic Convergence
Continental and Oceanic Convergence

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Answers

1
What is the make up of the lithosphere
Upper mantle & outer core
Lower mantle & inner core
Crust & lower mantle
Crust & upper mantle
2
What type of Plate Boundary movement causes these earthquakes on the San Andreas Fault?
Divergent
Convergent
Subduction Zones
Transform
3
Tectonic forces can cause rocks to fold. What kind of stress causes folding?
Normal Stress
Tension
Compression
Shear Stress
4
The theory that states that pieces of Earth's crust are in constant, slow motion is called
The theory of plate boundaries
The theory of continental drift
The theory of Pangaea
The theory of plate tectonics
5
Which of the following is happening at B in the picture?
a fault-block mountain
mid-ocean ridge
a folded mountain
a volcano
6
Where is the newest crust located?
B & C
A
B & A
A & C
7
Identify the type of boundary movement
Transform
Divergent
Convergent
8
What is the name of the land feature created when continental & continental collide?
Volcanic mountains
Folded mountains
ridges
Trenches
9
What type of boundary is shown?
deep-sea sediment
divergent
transform
convergent
10
The lithosphere consists of:
the crust and upper mantle
the upper mantle and the lithosphere
the inner mantle and the core
the crust and lower mantle
11
The process that continually adds new crust is...
Subduction
Sea floor spreading
Convection
Earthquakes
12
What type of boundary is this?
Continental Continental Divergence
Oceanic and Oceanic Divergence
Divergence
Convergence
13
Which events are associated with transform plate boundaries?
Trenches & Island Arcs
Faults & Earthquakes
Folded mountains
Volcanoes & Sea Floor Spreading
14
Where are nearly all mountains found?
At plate boundaries
On land
Antarctica
15
Rocks found along divergent boundaries are youngest away from the plate boundary
True - rocks are younger as you move away from the boundary
False - rocks are younger closer to the boundary
16
When 2 plates move apart it is called a _____________ boundary.
Divergent
Personal
Convergent
Transform
17
Hypothesis that states that the continents once formed a single Landmass then broke apart:
Continental Drift
Plate Movement
Laurasia
Lithosphere Displacement
18
When 2 plates slide past one another horizontally, we call this a ________________ boundary.
Convergent
Transform
Subduction
Divergent
19
The Himalayan mountains are the result of a convergent boundary involving...
2 oceanic plates
a dinner plate and a desert plate
2 continental plates
an oceanic plate and a continental plate
20
Caused in a fluid by the hotter less dense material to rise, & colder material to sink
divergent
Subduction
Convergent
Convection
21
What kind of plate boundary is shown in the picture
transform
divergent
convergent
karst topography
22
This plate is:
Convergent
Divergent
Transform
23
When one plate pushes underneath another plate it is called a...
Transform Boundary
Subduction Zone
Divergent Boundary
Asthenosphere
24
What plate boundaries are responsible for earthquakes?
Convergent
Transform
All three
Divergent
25
Land features such as island arcs, trenches, volacanos, earthquakes occur
along plate boundaries
Africa only
anywhere on earth, it's random!
Ring of Fire only
26
If two plates are sliding past each other it's called...
Convergent boundary
Divergent boundary
Transform boundary
27
Identify the type of boundary movement
Convergent
Transform
Divergent
28
What type of movement occurred at the South American plate and the African Plate
Convergent
Divergent
Transform
29
What type of plate boundary is shown
unknown
transform
divergent
convergent
30
What type of land feature is shown in the picture?
Mariana Trench
Africa's Rift Valley
Mid Atlantic Ridge
Himalayan Mtns
31
This plate is:
Divergent
Convergent
Transform
32
What is this type of boundary?
Divergent
Convergent
Slip Fault
Transform
33
Identify the type of convergent boundary movement
Oceanic-Oceanic convergence
Oceanic-Continental convergence
Continental-Continental convergence
34
The lithosphere can be ______ at plate boundaries.
Created
Nothing can happen
Destroyed
All of these
35
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is an example of what kind of Plate Boundary.
Convergent
Transform
Divergent
Oceanic
36
A series of water waves caused by the displacement of a large volume of body water
Water
Tsunami
Volcanic eruption
Explosion
37
Plates that slide past one another are called...
Constructive
Divergent
Transform
Convergent
38
Heat rises from the Earth's core up into the ______ to power the ______cycles.
ocean, tsunami
crust, heat
lithosphere, continental crust
mantle, convection
39
What is this boundary?
Continental and Oceanic Convergence
Continental and Continental Convergence
Oceanic and Oceanic convergence
Continental and Continental Divergence
40
Volcanoes that form along a mid-ocean ridge occur at a diverging plate boundary.
True
False
41
The lithosphere is BELOW the asthenosphere
True
False
42
What type of convergent boundary is shown?
continental continental
ocean oceanic
transform
oceanic continental
43
Fault lines can cause
Earthquakes
Hurricanes
Rain
Tornadoes
44
Sudden violent movement of the earth's surface
Landslide
Hurricane
Avalanche
Earthquake
45
In sea-floor spreading, where is newer rock found?
Near the trench
Near the ridge
Near the mantle
Near the surface of the ocean
46
Which process destroys crust?
Subduction
Seafloor Spreading
Law of Conservation of Mass
convection current
47
What type of land feature is found at this plate boundary?
folded mountains
Island Arcs
Volcanic Mountains
faults
48
Which observations supported Wegener's theory of Continental Drift?
Volcanoes erupt frequently in Ring of Fire
Age of seafloor increases with distance
Similar fossils and rocks found oceans apart
Himalayas continue to grow
49
Seafloor spreading occurs when two plates
When one plate subducts beneath another less dense one
are colliding into each other
are moving away from each other creating ridges
slip passed each other creating earthquakes
50
The process of plate movement within the earth
Subduction
Convection
Plate Boundary
Plate Tectonics
51
The outermost rigid layer of Earth that includes the crust and the upper mantle is called _____
Mantle
Oceanic
Inner Core
Lithosphere
52
An Oceanic Plate going under another Oceanic Plate is an example of what type of Plate Boundary
Convergent
Transform
Oceanic Crust
Divergent
53
When ocean and continental plates collide, which plate subducts beneath the other?
oceanic it's less dense
continental it's less dense
oceanic it's more dense
neither
54
Where is the oldest crust located?
None of the above
D
A
C
55
Which term names the super-continent from about 200 million years ago?
Pangea
Disney Land
Tectonic
Wegener
56
Volcanic island arcs form as a result of...
diverging continental plates
converging oceanic plates
diverging oceanic plates
converging continental plates
57
What type of boundary is this?
Continental and Oceanic Convergence
Continental and Oceanic Divergence
Continental and Continental Convergence
Convergence
58
Convection currents in the mantle leads to movement in the __________.
Earth's core
Asthenosphere
Pacific Ocean
Lithosphere
59
Evidence for continental drift includes how similar the coast line is of these two continents:
Australia and Antarctica
N. America and S. America
S. America and Africa
Africa and N. America
60
Which process builds up or makes more crust?
Subductions
Shearing
Karst Topography
Seafloor spreading
61
What is a tectonic plate?
Segments of oceanic crust
A portion of continental matter
A block of mantle
A block of lithosphere
62
Most of earth's volcanos are formed from
Meteorites that strike the earth
meeting or separating of plates
glacial melting
sediment build up
63
This plate is:
Transform
Convergent
Divergent
64
Identify the type of boundary movement
Transform
Convergent
Divergent
65
The picture is an example of what kind of plate boundary?
Convergent
Transform
Divergent
Breakage
66
Scientists think movement of tectonic plates is caused by which of the following processes?
Radiation
None of these
GPS
Convection Currents
67
Continental-Continental,Oceanic-Oceanic,Continental-Oceanic are what plate boundary type?
Divergent
Convergent
Transform
68
Convections Current is the force the drives plate movement, it occurs in the
Lithosphere of the mantle
outer core
Lithosphere
asthenosphere of the mantle
69
The Himalayas were formed by which type of plate boundary movement
Transform
Divergence
Convergence
70
The San Andreas fault is an example of a...
Transform boundary
Convergent boundary
Really fun (but very inappropriate) video game
Divergent boundary
71
What is subduction?
When one plate slides under another
When 2 plates collide
When one plate is too old and collapses
When 2 plates slide past each other
72
In a convection current, heat tends to:
Fall
Rise
Float
Sink
73
What is Seafloor Spreading?
Magma flowing up and outward creating new crust in the ocean
Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Oceanic Plates
The Moon
74
Convergent plate boundaries occur where tectonic plates...
Move Towards each other
Move Apart
Grind Past Each Other
75
Transform plate boundaries occur where tectonic plates...
Grind Past Each Other
Move Apart
Move Together
76
What adds more crust to the sea floor?
Ring of Fire
Trenches
Sea-floor spreading
Magnetic Stripe
77
The bending of a plate of the earth's crust into the mantle beneath another plate is called
Subduction
Convection
Volcano
Mid-Ocean Ridge
78
Why wasn't Alfred Wegener's Continental Drift Theory accepted by the science community?
The evidence did not make any sense
People felt that there wasn't enough evidence
He could not explain how the plates moved
people are closed minded
79
Divergent plate boundaries occur where tectonic plates...
Grind Past Each Other
Move Together
Move Apart
80
Seafloor spreading occurs when two plates
are moving away from each other creating ridges
slip passed each other creating earthquakes
are colliding into each other
When one plate subducts beneath another less dense one
81
What type of plates are located under land?
Oceanic
Continents
Continental
Lithosphere
82
Ocean trenches form at ____________ boundaries.
Whaaaa?
Transform
Convergent
Divergent
83
Which feature is associated with divergent boundaries?
The Hawaiian Islands
The San Andreas Fault
The Himalayan Mountains
The mid-Atlantic ridge
84
The lithosphere is ONLY made up of the rock that makes continents
FALSE
TRUE
85
The picture is an example of what kind of plate boundary?
Transform
Divergent
Collision
Convergent
86
Rocks found along divergent boundaries are youngest away from the plate boundary
False - rocks are younger closer to the boundary
True - rocks are younger as you move away from the boundary
87
What are most earthquakes associated with?
rift valleys
mid-ocean ridges
plate boundaries
divergent plate boundaries
88
What creates a volcanic island arc?
Oceanic plate & oceanic plate
Continental plate &continental plate
Oceanic plate & continental plate
89
What is this plate boundary?
Oceanic and Oceanic Divergence
Transform
Oceanic and Oceanic Convergence
Oceanic and Continental Divergence
90
What is this boundary?
Oceanic and Oceanic Divergence
Continental and Continental Convergence
Oceanic and Oceanic Convergence
Continental and Oceanic Convergence