1st Quarter, Lesson 5: Plate Boundaries

Question 1

What is Plate Boundary?

Answer 1

A boundary between 2 or more plates

Question 2

What are the different types of Plate Boundaries?

Answer 2

Divergent
Convergent
Transform

Question 3

What is Divergent?

Answer 3

These are boundaries moving away from one another. The magma goes up, causing two landforms to separate.

Question 4

How are rocks pulled apart in Divergent?

Answer 4

Tension Stress

Question 5

This causes Seafloor spreading.

Answer 5

Divergent

Question 6

What can Divergent cause?

Answer 6

Rift Valleys, Ridges, Fissure Volcanoes

Question 7

Two Tectonic Plates moving towards one another.

Answer 7

Convergent

Question 8

Two plates are collided due to ______

Answer 8

Compression Stress

Question 9

What are the 3 types of Convergent?

Answer 9

Oceanic-Continental
Oceanic-Oceanic
Continental-Continental

Question 10

What is Oceanic-Continental?

Answer 10

It overrides the oceanic plates (mountain ranges)

Question 11

This depends on the age of the crust.

Answer 11

Oceanic-Oceanic

Question 12

Continental-Continental

Answer 12

This is where two continents are faced head on and create the highest mountain ranges.

Question 13

What is the transform fault boundary?

Answer 13

It is where it moves in opposite directions. Shear Stress. Causes Earthquakes.

Question 14

This is where the rock is pushed in two opposite directions but doesn’t destroy crust.

Answer 14

Transform