Plate Tectonics Unit Test Review

The Ring of Fire, a region with many active volcanoes, circles which ocean? 
(a) Atlantic  
(b) Arctic 
(c) Pacific 
(d) Indian  

• a
• b
• c
• d

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Most of the world’s great mountain ranges occur near what kind of boundaries:
(a) convergent  
(b) divergent
(c) transform 
(d) fault   

• a
• b
• c
• d

The point beneath Earth’s surface where rock breaks under stress and triggers an earthquake is called the: 
(a) syncline.  
(b) footwall. 
(c) epicenter.  
(d) focus.  

• a
• b
• c
• d

The type of seismic waves that arrive at the surface first and move by compressing and expanding the ground like an accordion are called: 
(a) S waves.  
(b) P waves. 
(c) Surface waves.   (d) Mercalli waves.

• a
• b
• c
• d

Who first proposed the idea of Continental Drift?

• Harry Hess

• Alfred Wegener

• Albert Einstein

• Galileo Galilee

What did Wegener name the large supercontinent where all the continents were joined together?

• Wegenerland

• Gondwanaland

• Laurasia

• Pangaea

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

The diagram shows a landform on Earth. How did the movement of Earth’s plates form the landform?

• Two oceanic plates slid past each other.

• Two continental plates collided.

• One continental plate slid past an oceanic plate.

• One continental plate subducted beneath an oceanic plate.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Which diagram shows a plate boundary that is typical for the formation of volcanoes?

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Use the diagram to answer the question. What results as the two oceanic plates converge?

• formation of a deep sea trench and island volcanoes

• earthquake activity and appearance of a transform fault

• volcanic eruption along both oceanic plate edges

• formation of a continental mountain range

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What kind of plate boundary is shown here?

• divergent
• convergent
• transform
• submergent

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