Transcript Plate Tectonics Test

What is the name of these islands?
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What country is this? Type of plate
boundary?
2
What mountain range is found here and why are they
volcanic?
3
Martinique and other volcanic islands form when
what two types of crust collide?
4
Name three of Africa’s Great Lakes formed
by rifting.
5
The Appalachian Mountains were formed in
a collision in the past between what two
types of crust.
6
What is occurring at this point?
7
What famous fault is found here and what
danger should you be aware of?
8
What is the name of the mountain range
found in Washington State?
9
This is an aerial view of Mt. St. Helens. What
is the name of the collapsed magma
chamber (seen on the north side of the
mountain)?
10
What is the name of the mountain range in
northern India?
11
What is the name of the fault in New
Zealand?
12
The deepest trench in the world is found
here. What is its name?
13
In what layer of the Earth are convection
currents found?
14
How fast do convection currents and
tectonic plates move?
15
What process would have been responsible
for the splitting of Pangaea?
16
What plate subducted to form the Peru-Chile Trench?
17
What type of boundary is found between the African and South American
plates?
18
What would you expect to find all around the Philippine Plate?
19
What term describes when one plate goes
under another plate, as in the diagram
below?
20
Which plate always goes “down” into the
mantle? Why?
21
What two features should you expect to
find whenever one plate goes under
another plate?
22
What is being shown in this diagram?
23
Where is the youngest oceanic crust
located?
24
What would you expect to happen along a
transform boundary?
25
What did scientists notice about the
magnetic pattern on either side of the
mid-ocean ridge?
26
What type of boundary exists between the
Indian Plate and the Eurasian plate?
27
What volcanoes formed on the overriding plate of the Philippine
Trench?
28
What type of boundary is responsible for creating the Pacific Ring of
Fire?
29
The Himalayas, Appalachians, and Rockies
are all examples of folded mountains.
Folded mountains form at a collision
between what type of plates?
30
What is the only type of boundary where
crust is neither created nor destroyed?
31
Lakes and seas along the East African Rift
may eventually become what?
32
The Hawaiian Islands form a line and look like the volcanic islands
formed by subduction (such as the Aleutian Islands). These islands
did not form at a plate boundary, though. Explain how the Hawaiian
Islands formed.
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This map shows a tsunami that was generated off the coast of
Kamchatka, Russia. What causes tsunamis?
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