SCIENCE Q1W4 QUIZ

1. Which of the plate boundaries will form when two tectonic plates are moving toward
each other?
A. convergent B. divergent C. tectonic D. transform
2. Nazca plate and South American plate is an example of what plate boundary?
A. convergent B. divergent C. tectonic D. transform
3. What type of plate boundary formed if two plates moved away from each other?
A. convergent B. divergent C. tectonic D. transform
4. What type of plate boundary exists in two sliding plates?
A. convergent B. divergent C. tectonic D. transform
5. What type of plate boundary exists on a certain island if you can find rift valley?
A. convergent B. divergent C. tectonic D. transform
6. What type of event will occur at transform plate boundary?
A. Earthquake B. Volcano Eruption C. Tornado D. Mountain Building
7. What type of plate boundary exists on a certain island if you can find mountain ranges?
A. convergent B. divergent C. tectonic D. transform
8. A divergent boundary occurs when plates are
A. Pulling apart B. Coming together C. Sliding past each other D. subducting
9. What geologic feature/event would you most likely to find at a divergent boundary
between two pieces of oceanic crust?
A. Rift Valley B. Mid-Ocean Ridge C. Island Arc D. Flat land
10. What geologic feature/event would you most likely to find at a convergent boundary
between two pieces of continental crust?
A. Volcano B. Mountain C. Rift D. Island Arc
11. This is the plastic layer of the mantle on which pieces of the lithosphere move.
A. Lithosphere B. Asthenosphere C. Mesosphere D. Crust
12. This layer is divided into pieces called tectonic plates.
A. Mesosphere B. Asthenosphere C. Mantle D. Lithosphere
13. Which of these tectonic plate boundaries is most likely to form a volcano.
A. a continental plate colliding with a continental plate
B. an oceanic plate sliding past a continental plate
C. a continental plate sliding past a continental plate
D. an oceanic plate colliding into a continental plate
14. A trench forms at a _________ boundary.
A. convergent B. divergent C. transform D. vertical
15. What is the process in which two plates move toward each other, but one sinks under the
other?
A. subduction B. convection C. divergence D. transformation

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