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Test review for a 6th grade plate tectonics test.
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1
Which type of boundary is occurring at A below?
a strike slip boundary
a divergent boundary
a transform boundary
a convergent boundary
2
What type of boundary is between the North American Plate and the Eurasian Plate to our East?
transform
divergent
subvergent
convergent
3
What type of plate boundary exists between the Indo-Australian Plate and the Eurasian Plate?
transform
divergent
subvergent
convergent
4
Which of the following is happening at B in the picture below?
a folded mountain
mid-ocean ridge
a volcano
a fault-block mountain
5
The Himalayan Mountains began forming as a result of which type of plate boundary?
divergent
subduction
transform
convergent
6
What type of boundary most likely exists along the "Ring of Fire"?
a rifting boundary
a divergent boundary
a transform boundary
a convergent boundary
7
What inference can be made about Earth 225 million years in the future?
There will be more volcanoes.
Earth will have more land than water.
The plates will have stopped moving.
The landmasses will have changed.
8
What event do you predict will occur at the boundary shown?
an earthquake
trench formation
a mountain range formation
volcanic island formation
9
How does the divergent movement of two plates affect the ocean basin between them?
The ocean basin does not change.
The size of the ocean basin increases.
The size of the ocean basin decreases.
The height of the ocean basin increases.
10
Why does oceanic crust subduct under continental crust when the two converge?
The oceanic crust is cooler.
The oceanic crust is denser.
The oceanic crust is thinner.
The oceanic crust is less dense.
11
Continental mountain ranges are usually associated with -
normal boundaries
transform boundaries
convergent boundaries
divergent boundaries
12
Which of the following occurs along transform boundaries?
mountain building
subduction
volcanoes
earthquakes
13
Why do most of the volcanoes on Earth exist along the "Ring of Fire"?
The crust is thinner in that area.
Tectonic plate boundaries are near.
The volcanoes are in the middle of a tectonic plate.
Earth's layers are hotter in that area.
14
Which of the following causes the movement of Earth's tectonic plates?
energy from the Sun
magnetic-pole reversals
faults in mountain ranges
convection currents below the lithosphere
15
Which of the following is happening at A in the picture below?
transform boundary
sea floor spreading
subduction
earthquake
16
What type of landform occurs where two tectonic plates with continental crust spread apart?
a rift valley
a fault line ridge
a mountain
a mid-ocean ridge
17
Why is a broken graham cracker a good model for the lithosphere?
The lithosphere is solid and brittle.
There are two types of crust.
The lithosphere has plasticity.
The lithosphere is brown.
18
A boundary where two tectonic plates collide (move into each other) is a:
normal boundary
divergent boundary
transform boundary
convergent boundary
19
What type of boundary exists along the San Andreas Fault where many earthquakes occur?
divergent
trench forming
transform
convergent
20
Which geological event is caused two sections of continental crust colliding?
volcano erupting
canyon forming
sea floor spreading
mountain building
