Practice for Plate Tectonics Test

These occur around plate boundaries.

• Earthquakes and erosion

• Hurricanes and tsunamis

• Title waves and volcanoes

• Earthquakes and volcanoes

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What is believed to cause seafloor spreading and continental drift?

• Tides

• Convection currents in the mantle

• The earth's magnetic field

• The shrinking and expanding of the earth's crust

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What type of plate boundary can you find a rift valley?

• Transform

• Divergent

• Convergent

What landform forms at a convergent boundary?

• Ridges

• Trenches

• Valleys

• Mountains

Choose all tectonic events.

• Convection currents are causing plates to move

• Spreading plates create new oceanic crust

• Plate moving together cause volcanos and new oceanic crust

• Outward movement of plates creates pressure on other plates which could lead to subduction

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Where are plates located?

• Outer Core

• Lithosphere

• Mesosphere

• Asthenosphere

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Most people didn't buy into Wegener's theory immediately because

• He had to many pieces of evidence to support his theory

• Knowing what the Earth looked like millions of years ago was impossible

• He couldn't identify what made the continents move

• They were afraid of his theory

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What kind of boundary creates an arc of islands?

• Convergent oceanic to oceanic

• Convergent continental to continental

• Divergent oceanic to continental

• Transform

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Why do earthquakes occur near the San Andreas fault?

• One plate pushes the other up slowly

• A trench is formed as one plate moves under the other

• Portions of the plates get stuck and then suddenly loosen and move

• One plate pushes hard enough to reversed the motion of the other plate

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Identical rock types, fossils, and similar mountain ranges on different continents separated by oceans. Which of these best explains these observations?

• Organisms traveled between continents by a land bridge

• The same forces eroded mountains on different continents

• Some rock types are very common and found everywhere

• At some point the continents where joined together

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