Quiz about Plate Tectonics

Question 1

What are the puzzle pieces of the Earth's surface called?

Accepted Answer

Tectonic plates

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Puzzles

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Earthquakes

Question 2

What is the outermost layer of the Earth called?

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Crust

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Core

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Mantle

Question 3

Lava that is still deep inside the earth is called ____________________________.

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magma

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lava

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volcano

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earthquake

Question 4

This famous fault in California has a lot of earthquakes!

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San Andreas Fault

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New Madrid

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Denali Fault

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Ramapo Seismic Zone

Question 5

What type of boundary is shown in the diagram?

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Divergent

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Convergent

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Transform

Question 6

What type of boundary is shown in the diagram?

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Slide/Transform

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Divergent

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Convergent

Question 7

What type of boundary is shown in the diagram?

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Convergent

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Divergent

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Slide/Transform

Question 8

A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other is called

Accepted Answer

Divergent Boundary

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Convergent Boundary

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Transform Boundary

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Subduction

Question 9

Scientists hypothesize that a super continent existed 200 million years ago.  This continent is called

Accepted Answer

Pangaea

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America

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Super Earth

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Eurasia

Question 10

A Plate Boundary where two plates move toward each other is called

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Convergent Boundary

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Divergent Boundary

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Transform Boundary

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Subduction

Question 11

What is the difference between the lithosphere and asthenosphere that makes up the mantle?

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The lithosphere is made of solid rock while the asthenosphere is more flexible hot rock that moves.

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The lithosphere is ismade of dense solid meal whle the asthenosphere is made of liquid molten metal

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The lithosphere is a mixture of gasses while the asthenosphere is made of solid rock

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The lithosphere is molten rock that moves while the asthenosphere is ridid and thin

Question 12

Convergent Plate Movement can create

Accepted Answer

Mountains

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Rifts

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Ocean Ridges

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Radiation

Question 13

A Plate Boundary where two plates move toward each other is called

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Convergent Boundary

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Divergent Boundary

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Transform Boundary

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Subduction

Question 14

_______________ Currents within the mantle cause the earth's plates to move and shift & molten material rises and falls due to density and gravity

Accepted Answer

Convection

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Radiation

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Conduction

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Wind

Question 15

Divergent Plate movement can create

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Rifts and ocean ridges

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Convection Currents

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Conduction

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Mountains

Question 16

When pressure builds between two tectonic plates, it can suddenly release causing a (an) ______________________

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Earthquake

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Volcano

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Convection Current

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Gravitational Pull

Question 17

A German scientist Alfred Wegener was the first to hypothesize that ...........

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Continents are moving

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Continents were once joined

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The sea floor is spreading

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The Earth's magnetic pole flips

Question 18

Evidence used by Wegener to supported his idea of continental drift included

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Climatic data

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Ocean rocks and sediments

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Ocean floor topography

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Magnetic isochron patterns

Question 19

One of the fossils Wegener used to support his hypothesis of continental drift was

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Glossopteris

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Trilobite

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insects in tree amber

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ammonite molds

Question 20

Where are most divergent boundaries located?

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Along the middle of most ocean floors

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Along the margins of most continents

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Across the middle of many continents

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All the above options are correct

Question 21

The Himalayan mountains have some of the highest peaks like Mt. Everest, on which type of convergent boundary are they located?

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Continental/Continental

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Oceanic/Continental

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Oceanic/Oceanic

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None of the above

Question 22

What type of features are associated with a divergent boundary?

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Rift valleys

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Volcanic mountains

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Fold mountains

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Fault block mountains

Question 23

The mechanism that moves continents is based on heat energy moving by

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Convection in the Asthenosphere

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Radiation in the core

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Conduction in the lithosphere

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None of these options is true

Question 24

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 25

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 26

What type of plate boundary is this?

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Convergent

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Plate

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Divergent

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Transform

Question 27

What type of plate boundary is this?

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Transform

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Convergent

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Divergent

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Plate

Question 28

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 29

Oceanic Trenches are formed by _______ plate boundaries

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Convergent

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Transform

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Plate

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Divergent

Question 30

Islands can form from magma which is pushed up at a __________ plate boundary

Accepted Answer

Convergent

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Divergent

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Transform

Question 31

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

Accepted Answer

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 32

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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An Oceanic plate subducts under a Continental Plate

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Two continental plates pull apart

Question 33

The Great Rift Valley in Africa and the Mid-Ocean Ridge were all created by this boundary

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Divergent

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Convergent

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Reform

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Transform

Question 34

What are the two types of crust

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continental and oceanic

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ocean and upper

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lower and upper

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pizza and subway

Question 35

Transform boundaries are most likely to produce what phenomenon?

Accepted Answer

earthquakes

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volcanoes

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deep sea trenches

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underwater mountain ranges

Question 36

When an oceanic plate and a continental plate collide, which one will subduct?

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oceanic

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continental

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neither

Question 37

The area where two tectonic plates meet.

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plate boundary

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mantle

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focus

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convection

Question 38

A subduction zone is formed...

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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 39

What does the theory of continental drift state?

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The continents were once joined in a super-continent and have moved over time

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Continents are stationary and do not move

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The Earth is broken into lithospheric plates that move due to convection currents

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none of the above

Question 40

What is represented by the picture?

Accepted Answer

Pangea

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Sea-floor spreading

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How the continents are arranged today

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Volcanoes

Question 41

What forms when an oceanic plate and a continental plate converge?

Accepted Answer

Trench

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Ocean

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Continent

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Mountains

Question 42

True or False : Sea-floor Spreading adds new material to the ocean floor?

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True

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False

Question 43

What happens when Subduction occurs?

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Parts of the crust fall into the mantle

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Parts of the crust fall into the core

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Parts of the crust fall into space

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None of the Above

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