Plate Tectonics Formative Assessment
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1. ___What does the movement of Earth’s plates cause?
a. Forms mountains
b. Causes volcanoes
c. Forms ocean trenches
d. All answers are correct
2. ___How can Earth’s plates move?
a. They can collide, pull apart, or slide against each other.
b. They only collide or slide along each other.
c. They only converge or diverge.
d. They only can move toward each other.
How plates move
3. ___Why do scientists think Earth’s plates move?
a. The Sun’s gravity
b. The movement of the planets
c. Earth’s magnetic field
d. Convection currents in the mantle
4. ___What happens when an oceanic plate converges with a continental plate?
a. The denser oceanic plate slides on top of the less dense continental plate.
b. The less dense oceanic plate slides under the denser continental plate.
c. The denser oceanic plate slides under the less dense continental plate.
d. The less dense oceanic plate slides past the denser continental plate.
5. ___How do scientists explain the formation of underwater mountain ranges (aka: mid-ocean ridges)?
a. Seafloor spreading
b. Convection currents
c. Strike-slip faults
d. Continental drift
What happens
when plates move?
6. ___What kind of movement created the Himalaya Mountains?
a. Divergent boundaries
b. Reversals of Earth’s magnetic field
c. Erosion
d. Convergent boundaries
Use the diagram and the following terms to answer
each question: a-convergent, b-divergent,
c-transform, d-fault, e-subduction, f-mid-ocean ridge,
g-trench
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___Which type of plate boundary occurs at X?
___What is happening at Z?
___Which type of plate boundary occurs at Y?
___What feature occurs at Y?
___What feature occurs at X?