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Geologic Events At Plate Boundaries

Test Description: Review of Geologic Events that occur at Plate Boundaries.

Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.

1) The mid-Atlantic ridge is 40,000 mile long rift along the ocean floor which was formed by which of the following?

AThe divergence of oceanic and oceanic crust BThe divergence of continental and continental crust CThe divergence of oceanic and continental crust DA transform boundary in the middle of the ocean

2) The Mariana trench is the deepest place in the ocean created by the subduction of oceanic plates. Trenches occur at what type of boundaries?

Atransform plate boundaries Bdivergent plate boundaries Cconvergent plate boundaries

3) Which of the following major geologic events occur at transform boundaries?

ABasins BVolcanoes CMountains DEarthquakes

4) What is the term when tectonic plates diverge and form a bowl like area?

AVolcano BRift CTrench DBasin

5) What formation is created when tectonic plates converge and form folds in the land?

AFault lines BHot spots CTrenches DMountain ranges

6) Which geologic event can occur at all three plate boundaries?

ABasins BEarthquakes CVolcanoes DMountains

7) Volcanoes can form at which two types of boundaries?

Aconvergent and divergent Bdivergent and transform Ctransform and convergent

8) What action in the Earth allows the movement of the tectonic plates?

Arotation of the Earth around the Sun Bmagnetic poles Cconvention currents in the mantle Dweather patterns like El Nino.

9) Mountains can only be formed on continental crust.

Atrue Bfalse

10) Tectonic plates move at different rates.

Afalse Btrue

*select an answer for all questions

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