Plate Tectonic Practice

Earthquakes and Volcanoes (Interactive!)

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Volcanoes

Lets start with volcanoes. You probably know that they are dangerous and they spit out lava, or magma I should say. Let's dive deeper into volcanoes!!

This is a active volcano. This volcano is spitting out lava. Lava is  hot, liquefied rock that flows from a volcano or other opening in the surface of Earth. Lava is very hot and can destroy and burn villages near the volcano that the lava falls on.

Volcanoes can be active, or dormant. Dormant volcanoes have a low chance of waking up and becoming an active volcano, what you see here on the screen. Active volcanoes spit out lava, but not all the time. After a volcano has erupted, the ground is very hot! Only Scientists can go near volcanoes, because they have a safe gear so they do not get burnt.

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Match the answers! What is a active volcano?

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How is a volcano formed?

• It forms randomly inside mountains when it gets super hot.

• When magma finds a way to escape from beneath the earth's surface, it creates a volcano.

• When lava from the Earth's core finds a way into a mountain to create a volcano.

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What is magma called when it reaches the surface of Earth?

• Lava

• viscosity

• toxic gas

This is the aftermath of a earthquake. Earthquakes are very destructive. Lets take a look on how a earthquake forms! But first, we need to know what tectonic plates are!

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Plate tectonics is the theory that Earth's outer shell is divided into several plates that glide over the mantle, the rocky inner layer above the core. 

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The huge pieces of the earth's crust are called ____________________________. 

• crust
• plates
• directions
• seismos

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The outside layer of the earth is called ______________________.

• core
• crust
• mantle
• outer core

Lets look at the layers of the Earth. The crust is a thin outer layer of the Earth! The mantle is the layer under the crust. The outer core is VERY hot. And last but not least, the inner core. It is the hottest layer of the Earth.

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How is this plate moving?

• more on top of the other

• bumping together

• move away from each other

• slide against each other

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How are these plates moving?

• bumping together

• slide against each other

• move away from each other

• more on top of another

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How are these plates moving?

• move away from each other

• bumping together

• slide against each other

• more on top of another

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How are these plates moving?

• slide against each other

• move away from each other

• more on top of another

• bumping together

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How do tectonic plates look like?

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The earth has top layer called...

• crust

• ocean

• land

• sea

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What have we learned?

• The layers of the earth

• How volcanoes are formed

• How earthquakes are formed

• What is magma and lava

• What is tectonic plates

Plate Boundaries

Heat Transfer

Convection, Conduction, Radiation

​Heat Transfer

​Heat is the transfer of thermal energy from one object to another.

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This can occur three ways:

• ​Convection

• ​Conduction

• ​Radiation

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Which of the following is not a form of heat transfer?

• Convection

• Conduction

• Insulation

• Radiation

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What kind of plate boundary is shown here?

• divergent
• convergent
• transform
• strike slip

​Conduction

​Heat transfer through direct contact between two objects or substances

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​Best in solids

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​When two things are touching, their particles interact and heat is transferred between them.

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What kind of plate boundary is shown here?

• divergent
• convergent
• transform
• submergent

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Which of the following are examples of heat transfer through conduction? You may choose more than one.

• Using hand warmers to warm up your hands

• Hot air balloon rising

• Burning your hand on a curling iron

• Spoon getting hot while sitting in hot tea

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What kind of plate boundary is shown here?

• divergent

• convergent

• transform

• subducting

​Convection

​Occurs in fluids like liquids and gases

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​As fluid heats up, the particles spread out, become less dense and rise

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​As fluids cool down, the particles become more dense and sink

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​"Heat Rises"

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Which of the following are examples of heat transfer through convection?

You may choose more than one.

• Hot air balloon rising

• The second floor of a house is warmer than the first floor

• Boiling water on the stove

• Sitting around a campfire and feeling the heat from the flames

​Radiation

​Transfer of thermal energy through waves

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​If you hold your hand near a hot object (such as a lightbulb or a candle), you can feel the heat transferred through waves

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Which of the following are examples of heat transfer through radiation? You may choose more than one.

• Feeling the heat from a candle

• The water at the top of the pool feels warmer than the deep end

• The sun warming the Earth

• A space heater warming the room

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Mountains form from ...

• plates sliding past one another
• collision of plates
• plates moving away from each other

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What geologic feature/event would you most likely to find at a convergent boundary between two pieces of continental crust?

• Volcano
• Mountain
• Rift
• Island Arc

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What geologic feature/event would you most likely to find at a divergent boundary between two pieces of continental crust?

• Mid-Ocean Ridge
• Mountain
• Rift Valley
• Island Arc

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What geologic feature/event would you most likely to find at a divergent boundary between two pieces of oceanic crust?

• Rift Valley
• Mid-Ocean Ridge
• Island Arc
• Flat land

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What geologic feature/event you be most likely to find at a transform boundary?

• Earthquakes
• Volcanoes
• Mountains
• Rift Valleys

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A boundary where two plates move away from each other.

• convergent boundary
• divergent boundary
• transform boundary
• sergent boundary

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A boundary where two plates slide past each other.

• convergent boundary
• convergent boundary
• transform boundary
• sergent boundary

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A boundary where two plates collide into  each other.

• convergent boundary
• divergent boundary
• transform boundary
• sergent boundary

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When two convergent plates come together where the denser one is forced under back into the mantle

• reduction
• conduction
• subduction
• convection

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Large pieces of Earth's lithosphere that move around are called?

• Sections
• Plates
• Land Masses
• Faults

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A deep valley that forms along a divergent boundary.

• rift valley
• canyon 
• mid-ocean ridge
• ocean valley

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The denser and thinner of the two plate types.

• continental crust
• oceanic crust

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The less dense and thicker of the two plate types.

• oceanic crust
• continental crust

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What special force is found in the asthenosphere?

• Wind
• Convection currents
• Tides
• Lava

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Which type of plate boundary would cause mountains to form

• Transform
• Convergent
• Divergent
• Reform

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The Great Rift Valley in Africa and the Mid-Ocean Ridge were all created by this boundary

• Divergent
• Convergent
• Reform
• Transform

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What are the two types of crust

• continental and oceanic
• ocean and upper
• lower and upper
• pizza and subway

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This image is of...

• Convergent boundary
• Transform Boundary
• Divergent Boundary

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Which of these events can ONLY happen on a DIVERGENT BOUNDARY?

• Rift Valley
• Mountain
• A peninsula
• An Insanely complex, long answer that you will click out of instinct. 

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Which scientist posed the theory of continental drift?

• Harry Hess
• Drummond Matthews
• Fred Vine
• Alfred Wegener

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What was Pangaea?

• An African woman
• A nation
• A supercontinent
• An Indian tribe

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What makes up Pangaea?

• Continents
• Oceans
• Religions

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A subduction zone is formed...

• when one tectonic plate sinks below another
• at every type of convergent plate boundary
• at every type of divergent plate boundary
• at transform boundaries

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The process that happens at the deep-ocean trench is called...

• sea-floor spreading
• adding material to the ocean floor
• subduction

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Older crust is found towards the...

• Mid-ocean ridge
• Deep-ocean trench
• Asthenosphere

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New crust is always formed at the...

• mid-ocean ridge
• deep-ocean trench
• asthenosphere

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What process is occurring at Z?

• Convection currents       
•  Subduction 
• Two plates moving apart
• New ocean floor forming