Quiz about Dynamic Earth

Question 1

The type of plate boundary where two plates come together is a .....

Accepted Answer

Convergent Boundary

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Divergent Boundary

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Transform Boundary

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Plate Boundary

Question 2

What type of plate boundary is this?

Accepted Answer

Convergent

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Plate

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Divergent

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Transform

Question 3

Which of the following causes Earth's tectonic plates to move?

Accepted Answer

Convection currents in the mantle

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Energy from the Sun

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Magnetic Pole Reversal

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Faults in Mountain Ranges

Question 4

What type of event will most likely occur at this boundary?

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Earthquake

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Volcano Eruption

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Tornado

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nothing

Question 5

A divergent boundary occurs when plates ....

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Pull apart

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Come together

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Slide past each other

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subducting

Question 6

Which of the following is the name of the ancient supercontinent formed 28 Million Years ago.

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Pangea

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Gondwanda

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Laurasia

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Amasia

Question 7

Which of the following is NOT evidence to support the theory of plate tectonics?

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Sand Erosion

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Fossils

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Mountains

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Glaciers

Question 8

What type of plate boundary is this?

Accepted Answer

Transform

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Convergent

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Divergent

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Plate

Question 9

The theory that says Earth's continents once made up an ancient supercontinent, and have been drifting apart ever since, is called the theory of...

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Plate Tectonics

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Pangea

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Natural Selection

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Gravity

Question 10

Where would the oldest rock be found? (this is a divergent boundary)

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O

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L

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M

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N

Question 11

How is it possible for new crust to be formed without increasing the surface area of the Earth?

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Crust is destroyed at the same time it is created

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New crust is underwater where it sinks

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New crust breaks more easily than old crust

Question 12

Mountains are created when....

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Two continental plates collide

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Two oceanic plates pull apart

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Two continental plates pull apart

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Nothing

Question 13

The presence of the same ________ on several continents supports the idea of continental drift.

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both fossils and rocks

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rocks

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fossils

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neither fossils nor rocks

Question 14

A lack of evidence for continental drift prevented many scientists from believing a single supercontinent called _________ existed.

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Pangaea

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Glossopteris

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Gondwanaland

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Mesosaurus

Question 15

Many scientists think hot plastic-like rock in the mantle is forced upward toward the surface, cools, and sinks.  This process is called a(n) _________.

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convection current

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earthquake

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convergent boundary

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volcano

Question 16

The _________ is the thinnest layer of Earth.

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crust

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outer core

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inner core

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mantle

Question 17

_______ are formed when two continental plates collide.

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Mountain ranges

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Transform faults

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Rift valleys

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Volcanoes

Question 18

The theory of continental drift was first proposed by __________.

Accepted Answer

Alfred Wegener

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Thomas Edison

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Benjamin Franklin

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Harry Hess

Question 19

_________ currents carry heat from the hot inner core to the cooler outer mantle and back again.

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Convection

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River

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Radiation

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Conduction

Question 20

Which produces the material for the formation of sedimentary rock?

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sediments

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magma

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extreme heat and pressure

Question 21

Which type of rock results from melting and cooling of magma?

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Igneous

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Metamorphic

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Sedimentary

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Extrusive

Question 22

Which type of rock forms from extreme heat and pressure?

Accepted Answer

Metamorphic

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Igneous

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Sedimentary

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Organic

Question 23

A metamorphic rock changes into an igneous rock by what two processes?

Accepted Answer

Melting and cooling

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Extreme heat and pressure

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Compaction and cementation

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Weathering and erosion

Question 24

Wind, water, and ice breaking down rock is called

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Weathering

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Erosion

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Deposition

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Compaction

Question 25

What is the MAIN way rocks are classified?

Accepted Answer

How they form

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Their color and shapes

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Mineral bands

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Where they form

Question 26

True/False: Igneous rocks can only turn into metamorphic rocks.

Accepted Answer

False

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True

Question 27

This rock was found near the mouth of a volcano. What type of rock is this?

Accepted Answer

Igneous

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Sedimentary

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Metamorphic

Question 28

This rock was formed by smaller pieces of rock that settled at the bottom of a lake millions of years ago. What type of rock is this?

Accepted Answer

Sedimentary

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Igneous

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Metamorphic

Question 29

This rock started as molten magma. What type of rock is this?

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Igneous

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Sedimentary

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Metamorphic

Question 30

This rock is made from tiny pieces of other rocks that settled to the bottom of a valley millions of years ago. What type of rock is this?

Accepted Answer

Sedimentary

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Igneous

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Metamorphic

Question 31

This rock cooled on the outside of a volcano and contained air bubbles when it was forming. What type of rock is this?

Accepted Answer

Igneous

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Sedimentary

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Metamorphic

Question 32

Each rock type can follow only one pathway of the rock cycle.

Accepted Answer

False

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True

Question 33

The youngest rocks on the ocean floor are located ____.

Accepted Answer

at mid-ocean ridges

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near continents

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far from mid-ocean ridges

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near Asia

Question 34

What particular event is shown on the picture?

Accepted Answer

subduction zone

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mid-ocean ridge

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transform boundary

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divergent boundary

Question 35

What do scientists use as evidence of continental drift?

Accepted Answer

All of these options

Answer

Sea floor spreading

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Fossil record

Answer

Coastline shapes

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