Name:_____________________________

Date:______________________________
Plate Tectonics Quiz
1)Plate __________
a) shift
b)tectonics
c) movement

2) How many different types of plate boundaries are there?
a)1
b)2
c)3

3)Divergent plate boundaries make new
a) trees
b)crust
c) slopes
d) oceans

4) Subduction occurs in
a) convergent plate boundaries
b) transform plate boundaries
c) trench plate boundaries

5)Convergent Plates create ________?
a) vents
b) mountain ranges
c) river valleys

6) Transform Plate Boundaries have
a) one plate moving forward
Name:_____________________________
Date:______________________________
b) two plates moving in the same direction
c) two sliding plates



Write True or False

7)The San Andreas fault is in Colorado.

8) Many earthquakes occur in California.

9) The Pacific Plate and North American Plate touch at the San
Andreas Fault.

10. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is made from the convergent plate
boundary.

11. Magma does not rise and form new crust in Divergent Plate
Boundaries.

12. Convergent plate boundaries does not let magma into volcanos.


13. An extended crack in the crust that breaks down the rocks on
either side is an. (Circle one)


slip fault strike-slip fault line fault

14. The USA is mostly on the ________ ___________ Plate?



Bonus!
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Date:______________________________
________ Ocean Trench is a deep valley that is straight on the ocean
floor at a subduction zone where two plates are ____________.