Quiz about Plate Tectonics Shapes the Earth Concept Review

Question 1

This is a model of a process inside the Earth That moves the lithospheric plates?

Accepted Answer

Asthenosphere Convection

Answer

Conduction

Answer

Convection

Answer

Outer Core Convection

Question 2

Two lithospheric plates colliding with each other describes which boundary?

Accepted Answer

Convergent Plate Boundary

Answer

Divergent Plate Boundary

Answer

Transform Plate Boundary

Answer

Intraplate Activity

Question 3

Two lithospheric plates moving away from each other describes which boundary?

Accepted Answer

Divergent Plate Boundary

Answer

Convergent Plate Boundary

Answer

Transform Plate Boundary

Answer

Intraplate Activity

Question 4

Two lithospheric plates sliding past each other describes which boundary?

Accepted Answer

Transform Plate Boundary

Answer

Divergent Plate Boundary

Answer

Convergent Plate Boundary

Answer

Intraplate Activity

Question 5

What geographic feature is produced at a continental - continental divergent plate boundary

Accepted Answer

Rift Valley

Answer

Folded Mountains

Answer

Deep Sea Trench

Answer

Mid Ocean Ridge

Answer

Continental Arc Volcanoes

Question 6

What geographic feature is produced at a continental - continental convergent plate boundary

Accepted Answer

Folded Mountains

Answer

Rift Valley

Answer

Deep Sea Trench

Answer

Mid Ocean Ridge

Answer

Continental Arc Volcanoes

Question 7

What geographic feature is produced at any convergent plate boundary that involves subduction of oceanic lithosphere?

Accepted Answer

Deep Sea Trench

Answer

Folded Mountains

Answer

Rift Valley

Answer

Mid Ocean Ridge

Answer

Continental Arc Volcanoes

Question 8

What geographic feature is produced at a oceanic - oceanic divergent plate boundary

Accepted Answer

Mid Ocean Ridge

Answer

Folded Mountains

Answer

Rift Valley

Answer

Deep Sea Trench

Answer

Continental Arc Volcanoes

Question 9

Line of volcanoes on a continental plate; the volcanoes are on a continent above a subducting oceanic plate.

Accepted Answer

Continental Arc

Answer

Island Arc

Answer

Hot Spots

Answer

Subduction Zone

Question 10

A string of volcanoes that form as the result of subduction of one oceanic plate beneath a second oceanic plate.

Accepted Answer

Island Arc

Answer

Continental Arc

Answer

Hot Spots

Answer

Subduction Zone

Question 11

The region where an oceanic lithospheric plate sinks down into the asthenosphere at a convergent boundary.

Accepted Answer

Subduction Zone

Answer

Continental Arc

Answer

Island Arc

Answer

Hot Spots

Question 12

Areas of volcanic activity that result from plumes of hot solid material that have risen from deep inside earths mantle

Accepted Answer

Hot Spots

Answer

Continental Arc

Answer

Island Arc

Answer

Subduction Zone

Question 13

Transform Plate Boundaries allow which other boundary to open in small sections, creating mid ocean ridges, and or, rift valleys.

Accepted Answer

Oceanic - Oceanic Divergent Plate Boundaries

Accepted Answer

Continental - Continental Divergent Plate Boundaries

Answer

The Wasatch Mountains

Answer

Continental - Continental Convergent Plate Boundaries

Question 14

A hot spot is caused by what plate tectonic feature?

Accepted Answer

Mantle Plume

Answer

Subduction

Answer

Sea Floor Spreading

Answer

Convergent Plate Boundaries

Question 15

Evidence showing that new crust is created at mid ocean ridges and recycled at subduction zones includes which of the following. (Choose all answers)

Accepted Answer

Magnetic stipes

Accepted Answer

Youngest rock is near the mid ocean ridge

Accepted Answer

Oldest rock is near the subduction zone

Answer

Oldest rock is near the middle of the lithospheric plate

Answer

Ridge push and Slab Pull

Question 16

What is the driving force behind lithospheric plate movement? (Check all correct answers)

Accepted Answer

Convection in the asthenopshere

Accepted Answer

Ridge Push and Slab Pull in the Lithosphere

Answer

Flow of Phlogiston in the atmosphere

Answer

Convection in the outer core and the electromagnetic force

Answer

Rotational forces from Earth spinning

Question 17

What two boundaries are pictured here?

Accepted Answer

Oceanic - Oceanic Divergent Plate Boundary

Accepted Answer

Transform Plate Boundary (aka Transform Faults)

Answer

Continental - Continental Divergent Plate Boundary

Answer

Oceanic - Continental Convergent Plate Boundary

Question 18

How many lithospheric plates are involved here?

Accepted Answer

2

Answer

4

Answer

6

Answer

3

Question 19

These are the eruptions of the Yellowstone hotspot. Choose the equations which shows all the accurate steps to calculate the rate of lithospheric plate movement. Oldest eruption is 16 my and the distance from beginning to end is 685 km.

Accepted Answer

$$R=\frac{D}{T}$$ $$R=\ \frac{685\ km}{16\ my}$$ $$R=42.81\ \frac{km}{my}$$

Answer

$$R=\frac{T}{D}$$ $$R=\ \frac{16\ my}{685\ km}$$ $$R=.02\ \frac{my}{km}$$

Answer

$$D=\frac{R}{T}$$ $$D=\ \frac{685\ km}{16\ my}$$ $$D=42.81\ \frac{km}{my}$$

Answer

$$D=\frac{T}{R}$$ $$R=\ \frac{685\ km}{16\ my}$$ $$R=42.81\ \frac{km}{my}$$

Question 20

What is the origin of this volcanic island. Pick all correct answers.

Accepted Answer

A oceanic - oceanic divergent plate boundary.

Answer

A deep sea trench

Answer

A hot spot.

Answer

A oceanic - oceanic convergent plate boundary.

Question 21

What is the origin of these volcanic islands.

Accepted Answer

A hot spot.

Answer

A mid ocean ridge

Answer

A oceanic - oceanic divergent plate boundary.

Answer

A oceanic - oceanic convergent plate boundary.

Question 22

What is the origin of these volcanic islands. Pick all correct answers.

Accepted Answer

A oceanic - oceanic convergent plate boundary.

Answer

A mid ocean ridge

Answer

A oceanic - oceanic divergent plate boundary.

Answer

A hot spot.

Question 23

What boundary created these mountain ranges?

Accepted Answer

Continental - Continental convergent plate boundary

Answer

Oceanic - Continental convergent plate boundary

Answer

Oceanic - Oceanic convergent plate boundary

Answer

Continental - Continental divergent plate boundary

Question 24

What boundary split this one mountain range into two mountain ranges? (hint... it is oceanic now, but was it always?)

Accepted Answer

Continental - Continental divergent plate boundary

Answer

Continental - Continental convergent plate boundary

Answer

Oceanic - Continental convergent plate boundary

Answer

Oceanic - Oceanic divergent plate boundary

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