Plate Tectonics

Question 1

Which statement explains how convection currents affect the movement of plates?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

Heat from Earth’s interior causes currents of hot rising magma and cooler sinking magma to flow, moving the crust along with them.

Question 2

Use the drop-down menus to identify the labeled plates.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

Label A: South American Plate; Label B: African Plate; Label C: Indo-Australian Plate

Question 3

North AmericanSouth AmericanEurasianPacific

Revolt · Accepted Answer

Eurasian

Question 4

Use the drop-down menus to identify the types of convergent boundaries.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

Label A: oceanic-oceanic; Label B: oceanic-continental; Label C: continental-continental

Question 5

✔ convergent boundarydivergent boundary transform boundary

Revolt · Accepted Answer

✔ convergent boundary

Question 6

Which landforms might you see at a divergent plate boundary? Check all that apply.mid-ocean ridgemountain rangerift valleyvolcanoisland

Revolt · Accepted Answer

mid-ocean ridge; rift valley

Question 7

The photo shows the San Andreas fault zone. This is a fault formed at a transform boundary.What would you expect to find along this fault?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

earthquakes

Plate Tectonics Answers