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Assessment 3.2 – Plate Tectonics
Directions: Read through each question and select the best answer choice.
1. What are the three main types of tectonic plate
boundaries?
a. Convergent, Divergent, Transfer
b. Convection, Divergent, Transform
c. Convergent, Divergent, Transform
d. Convection, Divergent, Transfer
2. Any one of the internally rigid crustal blocks of the
lithosphere which move horizontally across the
Earth’s surface relative to one another is known as
a. Tectonic Plates
b. Asthenosphere
c. Outer Core
d. Inner Core
3. Tectonic plates that are not moving directly toward
or directly away from each other but rather two
tectonic plates grind past each other in a horizontal
direction is what type of plate boundary?
a. Convergent
b. Divergent
c. Transform
d. Reform
4. What geological feature can be created by a
divergent boundary?
a. Mountain Chains
b. Volcanoes
c. Earthquakes
d. Mid-Ocean Ridges and Rift Valleys
5. Which of these describes the outcome of the
collision between oceanic and continental crust?
a. The two portions of crust will stop moving
b. The continental crust will subduct beneath
the oceanic crust.
c. The two portions of crust will slide past one
another, side by side.
d. The oceanic crust will subduct beneath the
continental crust
6. What geological feature can be created by a
transform boundary?
a. Mountain Chains
b. Volcanoes
c. Earthquakes
d. Mid-Ocean Ridges and Rift Valleys
7. What is the difference between convergent and
divergent plate boundaries?
a. Convergent collides together, divergent
divides apart
b. Convergent collides together, divergent slides
by each other
c. Convergent divides apart, divergent collides
together
d. Convergent divides apart, divergent slides by
each other
8. Which is the only plate boundary that does not
involve magma?
a. Convection
b. Divergent
c. Convergent
d. Transform
9. A convergent boundary can form a mountain chain
or a
a. Rift Valley
b. Sea-Floor Trench
c. Mid-Ocean Ridge
d. Continental Rift
10. The San Andreas Fault is a transform fault that is
located at the border of the North American Plate
and the Pacific Plate.
What geologic feature may be created at this fault
line?
a. Mountains
b. Volcanoes
c. Rift Valleys
d. Earthquakes
11. In which areas does subduction of the ocean floor
take place?
a. Rift Valleys
b. The Lower Mantle
c. Mid-Ocean Ridges
d. Deep-Ocean Trenches
12. Which of the following is most responsible for the
formation of new crust at the edge of a tectonic
plate?
a. Mountain building at a continent-continent
convergent boundary
b. Magma rising up from the mantle at a
divergent boundary
c. Two tectonic plates sliding past one another
at a transform boundary
d. Subduction of one oceanic plate under
another at a convergent boundary
13. If the locations of earthquakes over the past 10
years were plotted on a world map, which of the
following would be observed?
a. Earthquakes occur with the same frequency
everywhere on Earth
b. Earthquakes generally occur along the edges
of tectonic plates
c. Earthquakes most frequently occur near the
middle of continents
d. Earthquakes do not seem to occur in any
consistent pattern
14. Use the diagram below to answer the following
question.
How was the mountain shown above most likely
formed?
a. Plates A and B are moving towards each other.
b. Plates A and B are moving apart from each
other.
c. Plate A is moving away and Plate B is stationary.
d. Plate A is stationary and Plate B is moving away.
15. Which of the following best describes Earth’s
tectonic plates?
a. They move away from each other at the
equator.
b. They move because of convection currents in
the mantle.
c. They collide at mid-ocean ridges.
d. They form at subduction zones.
16. At which boundary do two plates pull apart?
a. Convergent
b. Divergent
c. Transform
d. Mantle-Crust
17. Use the diagram below to answer the following
question.
On the map above, dark circles indicate the
positions of volcanoes in the “Ring of Fire” in and
around the Pacific Ocean. Dark lines indicate
tectonic plate boundaries of Earth’s crust. According
to this map, which of the following describes where
volcanoes are most likely to form in the “Ring of
Fire”?
a. Volcanoes form in the middle of a tectonic
plate.
b. Volcanoes form below the surface of tectonic
plates.
c. Volcanoes form where tectonic plates meet
other plates.
d. Volcanoes form where earthquakes are least
like to occur.
18. The part of the Earth on which the tectonic plates
are able to move is the
a. Lithosphere
b. Asthenosphere
c. Mesosphere
d. Subduction Zone
19. Cracks or breaks in Earth’s crust are known as
a. Transforms
b. Faults
c. Forks
d. Convergent
20. Two plates composed of rock similar density meet along
a convergent boundary. Which statement describes what
will happen where the two plates meet?
a. The plates will rub against each other, causing
shearing and creating fault lines in the interior of
the plates.
b. The plates will collide with neither plate
subducting, causing the crust to pile up and form a
mountain range.
c. The plates will collide, and the compression will
heat the plates, causing some of the plates to melt
and form volcanic mountains
d. The plates will rub against each other, causing
one plate to subduct underneath the other plate
and forming a deep trench along the boundary.