Quiz about Plate Boundaries & Earth's Layers -2

Question 1

What kind of plate boundary is shown here?

Accepted Answer

divergent

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convergent

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transform

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subducting

Question 2

What kind of plate boundary is shown here?

Accepted Answer

transform

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divergent

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convergent

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submergent

Question 3

What kind of plate boundary is shown here?

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convergent

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divergent

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transform

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strike slip

Question 4

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

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Earthquakes

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Volcanoes

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Mountains

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Rift Valleys

Question 5

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

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Mid-Ocean Ridge

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Rift Valley

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Island Arc

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Flat land

Question 6

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

Accepted Answer

Rift Valley

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Mid-Ocean Ridge

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Mountain

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Island Arc

Question 7

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

Accepted Answer

Mountain

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Volcano

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Rift

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Island Arc

Question 8

The area around the pacific plate where boundaries form is called...

Accepted Answer

ring of fire

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death ring

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fire zone

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zone of fire

Question 9

The San Andreas Fault in California is an example of a ________.

Accepted Answer

transform fault

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divergent boundary

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convergent boundary

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subduction zone

Question 10

Which of the following is where one plate slides under another plate?

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subduction zone

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submarine zone

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divergence zone

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lower zone

Question 11

Mountains form from ...

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collision of plates

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plates sliding past one another

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plates moving away from each other

Question 12

Oceanic crust is

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Thinner, younger and more dense than continental crust

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Younger and less dense than continental crust

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Older, thicker and less dense that continental crust

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Bigger and younger than continental crust

Question 13

In which type of boundary do the plates move away from each other?

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divergent

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convergent

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normal

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transform

Question 14

Plates slide past one another at ____________ boundaries.

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transform

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divergent

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convergent

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submergent

Question 15

Plates move towards one another at ______________ boundaries.

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convergent

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divergent

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transform

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detergent

Question 16

What would you be most likely to find at a convergent boundary between two pieces of oceanic crust?

Accepted Answer

Island Arc

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Mountains

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Rift

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Mid-Ocean Ridge

Question 17

What would you be most likely to find at a convergent boundary between a continental and oceanic plate?

Accepted Answer

Volcanoes

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Mountains

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Mid-Ocean Ridge

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Rift

Question 18

What would you be most likely to find at a divergent boundary between two pieces of oceanic crust?

Accepted Answer

Mid-Ocean Ridge

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Rift

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Island Arc

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Flat land

Question 19

What would you be most likely to find at a divergent boundary between two pieces of continental crust?

Accepted Answer

Rift

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Mid-Ocean Ridge

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Mountain

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Island Arc

Question 20

What would you be most likely to find at a convergent boundary between two pieces of continental crust?

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Mountain

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Volcano

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Rift

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Island Arc

Question 21

A subduction zone is formed...

Accepted Answer

when one tectonic plate sinks below another

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at every type of convergent plate boundary

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at every type of divergent plate boundary

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at transform boundaries

Question 22

Whenever a subduction zone is formed a ______ is formed.

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Volcano

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Mountain

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Island Arc

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Rift

Question 23

The area where two or more plates meet is called a __________________.

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plate boundary

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fault

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plate edge

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ring of fire

Question 24

The Supercontinent that once made up the Earth

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Pangea

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Trench

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Mid Ocean Ridge

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Asthenosphere

Question 25

What is Plate Tectonics?

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movement of the pieces of Earth's crust

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movement of the Earth in space

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movement of the oceans against Earth's land

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movement of the Earth around the sun

Question 26

Which layer of the core is made of molten metals?

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outer core

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inner core

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mantle

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crust

Question 27

all continents were once connected in a single landmass that broke apart about 200 million years ago and drifted slowly to their current positions

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continental drift

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seafloor spreading

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converge

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Pangaea

Question 28

Hess' theory that new seafloor is formed when magma is forced upward toward the surface at mid-ocean ridge

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seafloor spreading

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continental drift

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diverge

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Pangaea

Question 29

Which piece of evidence did Wegener use to prove continental drift?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

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The shape of the continents

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Similar fossils found on separate continents

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Similar Mountain formations (composition) on separate continents

Question 30

Why did no one believe Wegener's thoery?

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He could not explain HOW the continents moved

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He didn't have evidence

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His data was wrong

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He didn't use the right technology to gather data

Question 31

As you travel from the inner core to the crust, how would temperature, pressure and density of the material change?

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The would all decrease.

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The would all increase

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Nothing, the layers are made of the same material throughout

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Temperature would decrease, but pressure and density would increase

Question 32

This layer of Earth is solid Iron and Nickel

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Inner Core

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Outer Core

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Mantle

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Crust

Question 33

This layer of Earth is the thickest part

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mantle

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crust

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outer core

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inner core

Question 34

Which crust is thicker

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continental

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ocean

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bread

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pizza

Question 35

Which crust is more dense?

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oceanic

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continental

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bread

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pizza

Question 36

The tectonic plates float on the

Accepted Answer

asthenosphere

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lithosphere

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lower mantle

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outer core

Question 37

The part of the earth that includes the crust and the upper mantle and is split into tectonic plates is the

Accepted Answer

lithosphere

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crust

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asthenosphere

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mantle

Question 38

Who is credited with the idea of Continental Drift?

Accepted Answer

Alfred Wegener

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Albert Einstein

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Harry Hess

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Bill Nye

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