Review for test Chapter 7

Which of the following is most likely to happen at a transform boundary?

• major earth quakes
• mid ocean ridge
• rift valley
• deep sea trenches

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

Who came up with the idea of Continental Drift?

• Alfred Wagon
• Albert Wegener
• Alfred Wegener
• Albert Wagoner

Earthquakes typically occur _________________.

• In the middle of tectonic plates
• only in California
• only in the middle of the ocean
• along plate boundaries

What kind of plate boundary is shown here?

• divergent
• convergent
• transform
• strike slip

What is the term for a heavier, denser plate sliding under a less dense plate?

• plate boundary
• submersion
• accretion
• subduction

Plate movement is caused by ______________.

• the rotation of the Earth
• ocean tides
• convection currents in the mantle
• the moon's gravity

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

The part solid-part liquid layer that is located directly under the lithosphere is known as the ____________.

• lithosphere
• asthenosphere
• atmosphere
• photosphere

What process is occurring at Z?

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

A. Wegener believed that all the continents were connected at one time.  What did he call this one large land mass?

• Pancakes
• Pangaea
• Pancreas
• Patches