Tectonic Plates Quiz: 4/8/25

Ring of Fire

Shield volcano

How are shield volcanoes formed?

Strato volcano

How are strato volcanoes formed?

Subduction zone: 2 tectonic plates collide

How does the subduction zone form trenches, volcanoes, islands, mountains?

Subducting plates

Deep ocean trench

Mount Rainier

Mount St. Helens

Andes Mountains

What happens at the Andes Mountains?

Caribbean

Caribbean Islands

Continental plate

Continental collision: 2 continental plates collide

Fold Mountains

Himalayas

Converging Plates

Volcanoes

How do some of the mountains, like those in the US, form if there aren’t any plates that collide?