Exam 3: Plate Tectonics

Enormous mountain belts and high plateaus can be formed when two continental plates collide and:

Use your knowledge of plate boundaries to answer whether a volcano is likely or unlikely to form at the location of the red triangle

A continent has an oceanic trench offshore of its coast. Which of the following is probably NOT present along this side of the continent?

A convergent plate boundary is most likely associated with an):

This figure shows plate boundaries south of Alaska. Which location is along a convergent boundary?

The process of one plate sliding beneath another plate is called:

Mid-ocean ridges are elevated above the seafloor. The elevation of the seafloor:

How is magma created in a subduction zone?

Use your knowledge of plate boundaries to answer whether an earthquake is likely or unlikely to occur at the location of the red circle.

How many times did the Earth's magnetic field switch from north to south in the last 10 million years?

An oceanic transform plate boundary is most likely associated with an):

Which location on this figure from the Investigation is most likely to have volcanoes formed above a subduction zone?

On this map, identify which letter is over the Atlantic ocean.

What ideas brought a renewed interest to the idea of continental drift?

Mid-ocean ridges form where two ocean plates:

On this map of South America, which features are NOT on a plate boundary?

Which areas) on this world map are likely to be near a plate boundary?

At mid-ocean ridges, as two plates diverge:

If a magnetic stripe is 120 km wide and formed over 4 m.y., what would the rate of seafloor spreading be?

Which feature on this figure is formed by bending of the subducted plate?