EES-EHH - Test (Tectonic, Weather, Oceans)

What are the 2 types of ocean currents?

• surface & deep

• surface & shallow

• deep & far

• deep and near

What is do we call a diverse and complex ecologic community of plants & animals which exist and thrive around the world?

• density

• gyres

• biome

• deltra

What is the correct order (starting from the surface) of Earth's layers?

• crust, outer core, inner core, mantle
• mantle, outer core, inner core, crust
• crust, mantle, outer core, inner core
• outer core, inner core, crust, mantle

Name the type of plate boundary in the following diagram

• transform

• divergent

• convergent (collision)

• subduction

The force that causes the upward and downward movements of molten material that forms new continents

• continental drift

• sea floor spreading

• magnetic poles

• convection current

Most earthquakes occur along or near the edges of the

• North American plate

• Earth’s oceans and lakes

• Eurasian plate

• Oceanic and Continental plates

In which major earthquake zone are earthquakes produced mainly by plates moving away from each other

• the Pacific Ring of Fire

• the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

• the San Andreas Fault area

• the Eurasian-Melanesian mountain belt

The most damaging earthquake wave

• S-wave

• P-wave

• Surface wave

• All the above

The type of earthquake wave that travels the fastest and is the first to arrive at seismic

• P-wave

• S-wave

• L-wave

• Surface wave

Plants piling up to form coal millions of years ago is an example of formation of a ____________ sedimentary rock.

• foliated

• chemical

• clastic

• biological/bituminous