Unit 4 - Plate Tectonics

Which geological feature is found where the Eurasian and Indo-Australian plates converge?

Which term provides the most accurate classification of the geologic structure shown?

Which scale is used to report the intensity of an earthquake?

Tectonic motion caused tension between plates and what sudden release of this energy occurred?

Which activity would be the main result of twotectonic plates slipping past one another?

What name is given to this type of plate tectonic boundary?

Which is the most likely reasonfor the formation of the volcanic mountains?

Which best identifies thegeologic process taking place where sea-floor spreading occurs?

Which geologic event most likelycaused the formation of the Great Rift Valley?

Which geological feature would be created based on thedirections of the movement of the plates?

This pattern of plate movement most likely will resultin folded mountains if which is true?

. Why does oceanic crust generally tend to subductunder continental crust when plates collide?

Hawaii is composed mainly of volcanoes with gentleslopes, large surface areas and what lava?

What will be the most likelyformation at location Y?

What mostly likey causes the formation of ridges on the ocean floor?

What mostlikely caused the formation of this valley?

Which is LEAST likely to beassociated with the tectonic plate movement that forms volcanoes?

Which term provides the most accurate classification of the geologic structure?

Which movement of tectonic plates caused the rift valley toform?

The diagram below represents what process that occurswithin Earth‘s mantle?

Which geological event would most likely occuralong the type of boundary demonstrated?

Which process most likely resultsin the formation of folded mountains?

Which most likely causedthis geologic feature?

At which location do the convection currents cause theplates to diverge?

A volcano found in the center of a tectonic plate tends to be aresult of which phenomenon?

A fold observed in layers of sedimentary rock most likely resultedfrom the

At which type of plate boundary is new crust formed?

Which landforms are most likely associatedwith hot spots?

Which landform should be identified as beingformed by convergent boundaries?

Which made the Himalayan Mountain chain the tallest mountain chain on Earth?

Which of the tectonic plate interactions is LEAST likely to producevolcanic activity?

What causes the oceanic crust to be pushed under the continentalcrust? 

Which volcanic mountain is the highest? 

Based on their overall structures, how are these volcanoes most likelydifferent?

Which of the labeled points on the map has the steepest slope?