Use this interactive website to explore plate boundaries.
Question 1
1.
What type of boundary or boundaries create deep-sea trenches?
Question 2
2.
What type of boundary or boundaries create new seafloor?
Question 3
3.
What type of boundary or boundaries CAN create earthquakes?
Question 4
4.
What type of boundary or boundaries create mountain ranges?
Question 5
5.
What type of boundary or boundaries create island arc?
Question 6
6.
What type of boundary or boundaries create rift valleys?
Question 7
7.
What type of boundary ALWAYS creates earthquakes?
Question 8
8.
The word SUBDUCT goes with which plate boundary?
Question 9
9.
The word FAULT goes with which plate boundary?
Question 10
10.
The words COLLIDE or COLLSION goes with which plate boundary?
Question 11
11.
The word SLIDE goes with which plate boundary?
Question 12
12.
The phrase SEA FLOOR goes with which plate boundary?
Question 13
13.
What type of boundary or boundaries create ridge?
Question 14
14.
What type of boundary or boundaries create the strongest earthquakes?
Question 15
15.
What type of boundary or boundaries create ocean basins?
Question 16
16.
Slide the wood and boards past eachother so that there is friction between the sand. Describe the sound that it makes. What boundary does this model?
Question 17
17.
Look at the image of the towels and boards pushed together with the sand in between. Which plate boundary is it modeling?
Question 18
18.
Look at the images of the boards and paper being pulled apart. Which plate boundary is it modeling?
Question 19
19.
What type of boundary is shown?
Question 20
20.
What type of boundary is shown?
Question 21
21.
What type of boundary is shown?
Question 22
22.
What type of boundary is shown?
DIY Science: Plate Boundaries Divergent, Convergent and Transform (click here)
BrianPOP Plate Tectonics (click here)
Question 23
23.
Which type of plate boundary involves 2 plates moving toward each other?
Question 24
24.
What kind of plate boundary is pictured above?
Mid-Atlantic Ridge
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Question 25
25.
What type of crustal feature is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge?
Question 26
26.
What type of plate boundary forms the Mid-Atlantic ridge?
Question 27
27.
Study the map of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Recall that there are two types of crust (oceanic and continental). How would you describe the types of crusts that are interacting at the plate boundary to create the Mid-Atlantic Ridge?
Great Rift Valley website, website, video
Question 28
28.
What type of crustal feature is the Great Rift Valley?
Question 29
29.
What type of plate boundary causes the Great Rift Valley?
Question 30
30.
Find the Great Rift Valley on the map. Recall that there are two types of crust (oceanic and continental). How would you describe the types of crusts that are interacting to create the Great Rift Valley?
Himalaya Mountains
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Question 31
31.
What type of crustal feature is the Himalayas?
Question 32
32.
What type of plate boundary is responsible for forming the Himalayas?
Question 33
33.
Find the Himalayas on the map. Recall that there are two types of crust (oceanic and continental). How would you describe the types of crusts that are interacting at the plate boundary to create the Himalayas?
Mariana Trench
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Question 34
34.
What type of crustal feature is the Mariana Trench?
Question 35
35.
What kind of plate boundary formed the Mariana Trench?
Question 36
36.
Find the Mariana Trench on the map. Recall that there are two types of crust (oceanic and continental). How would you describe the types of crusts that are interacting at the plate boundary to create the Mariana trench?
