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Quiz No. 1
Quiz No. 1
Quiz No. 1
A. INSTRUCTIONS: Match the images in column A about plate tectonics and plate boundaries with its
definition/description in column B. Write the only the letter of your answer on the space provided in column A. (13 Points)
COLUMN A COLUMN B
Transform Boundary
____H______1.
Divergent Boundary
_____J_____2.
B. A wave from an earthquake or an explosion,
that can travel along the Earth’s surface or through
Earth’s interior
____I_____7. Epicenter
____D_____13. Convection
B. TABLE COMPLETION: Complete the table below about plate boundaries. (9 Points)
Occur on what type of Describe the movement of Give specific example
Boundary the type of Boundary
RIFTS DIVERGENT BOUNDARY when plates move away rift is a linear zone where
from one another the lithosphere is being
pulled apart
TRENCHES convergent plate boundary where two or more tectonic Trenches are long, narrow
plates meet depressions on the
seafloor that form at the
boundary of tectonic
plates where one plate is
pushed, or subducts,
beneath anothe
RIDGES divergent boundary where new ocean
floor is created as the
Earth's tectonic plates
spread apart
FAULT divergent boundary If tension builds up along Faults are cracks in
a fault and then is the earth's crust along
suddenly released, the
result is an earthquake
which there is
movemen t
ISLAND ARC subduction zone Island arcs are long
chains of active
volcanoes with
intense seismic
activity