Plate Tectonics Unit Test

What are the positive results of volcanic eruptions?

• The climate becomes warmer

• Extra sulfuric acid is removed from the atmosphere

• Rock and soil are enriched with valuable nutrients

• Growing seasons become longer

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________ currents inside Earth drive plate motion

• Vertical

• Horizontal

• Convection

• None of the above

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At an oceanic-oceanic convergent plate boundary

• new crust is created

• old crust is recycled by subduction

• old crust is fractured or deformed

• plates slide past one another

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The _______ is (are) an example of a transform boundary

• Appalachian Mountains

• Himalayas

• Mid-Atlantic Ridge

• San Andreas Fault

Which waves travel the deepest into the center of Earth?

• P-wavea

• S-waves

• surface waves

• They all travel to the center of the inner core

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Scientists discovered changes in Earth's interior (the layers of the Earth) by studying _____

• tsunamis

• tides

• changes in seismic waves

• all of the above

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The driving force of tectonic plates are related to convection currents in Earth's

• crust

• inner core

• mantle

• outer core

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The hypothesis that continents have slowly moved to their current location is called _____

• continental drift

• continental slope

• plate tectonics

• convection

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"We all got scared and ran outside. The house was ok, but our old shed fell over." This quote would help a researcher to rate and Earthquake on which scale?

• Modified Mercalli Scale

• moment magnitude scale

• Richter scale

• all of the above

plates of the lithosphere float on the

• crust

• core

• atmosphere

• asthenosphere