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Identifying Which Landforms Go With Which Boundaries.
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The Marianas Trench is the deepest point on Earth's Surface. Where the Pacific Plate subducts below the Mariana Plate, this trench formed as well as an island arc. What type of boundary is it?
a) Convergent Continental/Continental
b) Convergent Oceanic/Oceanic
c) Divergent Continental/Continental
d) Divergent Oceanic/Oceanic
The Aleutian Islands are a volcanic island arc below Alaska where the denser, heavier Pacific plate is sinking below the ocean on the North American Plate. What type of boundary is it?
a) Convergent Continental/Continental
b) Convergent Oceanic/Oceanic
c) Divergent Oceanic/Oceanic
d) Divergent Continental/Continental
After Pangea split apart, Eurasian Plate and the Africa Plate moved toward each other uplifting the ancient Tethys Sea to create the Alps in southern Europe. What type of boundary is it?
a) Convergent Continental/Continental
b) Convergent Continental/Oceanic
c) Divergent Continental/Continental
d) Divergent Continental/Oceanic
The denser Juan de Fuca plate subducts below the North American plate creating a trench off the coast Northwest of the United States and volcanoes like Mt. Saint Helen's and Mt. Rainier. What type of boundary is it?
a) Convergent Continental/Continetal
b) Convergent Continental/Oceanic
c) Convergent Oceanic/Oceanic
d) Divergent Continental/Oceanic
The East Pacific Rise separates the Pacific Plate from the Nazca, Cocos, and Antarctic plates. A mid-ocean ridge formed at the East Pacific Rise. What type of boundary is it?
a) Convergent Continental/Continental
b) Convergent Continental/Oceanic
c) Convergent Oceanic/Oceanic
d) Divergent Oceanic/Oceanic
After Pangea broke up, the continent of India slowly moved toward and eventually collided with Asia. The sea floor between them was compressed and folded upward to make the Himalayan Mountain Range. What type of boundary is it?
a) Convergent Continental/Continental
b) Convergent Continental/Oceanic
c) Convergent Oceanic/Oceanic
d) Divergent Oceanic/Oceanic
There is a great rift valley below the ice sheets in Antarctica that is splitting the continent into East and West Antarctica. What type of boundary is it?
a) Divergent Oceanic/Oceanic
b) Convergent Oceanic/Oceanic
c) Divergent Continental/Continental
d) Convergent Continental/Continental
Along the coast of California, there is a plate boundary between the North American and the Pacific Plate and a fault line called the San Andreas Fault causes many Earthquakes. What type of boundary is it?.
a) Convergent
b) Divergent
c) Transform
d) Subduction
As the Nazca plate subducts beneath the South American plate, crust is destroyed and magma can rise to the surface to create volcanic mountain ranges. What type of plate boundary is it?
a) Convergent Oceanic/Continental
b) Convergent Oceanic/Oceanic
c) Divergent
d) Convergent Continental/Continental
The African plate is pulling apart to create two smaller plates at the East African Rift. In the future, a new ocean will form at this rift.
a) Oceanic Convergent Plate
b) Continental Convergent Plate
c) Oceanic Divergent Plate
d) Continental Divergent Plate
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