Quiz about PreTest 6 - Plate Tectonics

Question 1

What type of plate boundary is shown in the picture?

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Divergent

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Convergent

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Transform

Question 2

What type of plate boundary is shown in the picture?

Accepted Answer

Transform

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Convergent

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Divergent

Question 3

What type of plate boundary is shown in the picture?

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Convergent

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Divergent

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Transform

Question 4

What geologic event would most likely be found at a transform boundary?

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Earthquake

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Volcano

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Mountain

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Mid-Ocean Ridge

Question 5

What landform would you most likely find at a divergent boundary between two pieces of oceanic crust?

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Mid-Ocean Ridge

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Rift Valley

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Mountain

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Volcano

Question 6

What landform would you most likely find at a divergent boundary between two pieces of continental crust?

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Rift Valley

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Mid-Ocean Ridge

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Mountain

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Volcano

Question 7

What landform would you most likely find at a convergent boundary between two pieces of continental crust?

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Mountain

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Mid-Ocean Ridge

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Oceanic Trench

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Volcano

Question 8

What landform would you most likely find at a convergent boundary between two pieces of oceanic crust?

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Ocean Trench

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Rift Valley

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Mid-Ocean Ridge

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Mountain

Question 9

When one tectonic plate sinks under another, this is called...

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Subduction

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Convegent

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Divergent

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Transform

Question 10

Which type of boundary do plates move away from each other?

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Divergent

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Convergent

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Transform

Question 11

Plate movement is caused by ____________.

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convection currents in the mantle

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the rotation of the Earth

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ocean tides

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the moon's gravity

Question 12

What are the two types of crust?

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Continental and oceanic

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Thick and thin

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Ocean and basin

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Lower and upper

Question 13

What is Pangaea?

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The name of the super-continent that existed millions of years ago

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The name of a German scientist

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Another name for continental drift

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The name of ancient fossil

Question 14

According to Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift,

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The continents were once joined together in a single landmass

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Earth's surface is made up of seven major landmasses

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Earth is slowly cooling and shrinking

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the continents DO NOT move

Question 15

What type of evidence was NOT used by Alfred Wegener to support his continental drift theory?

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evidence from human remains

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evidence from landforms

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evidence from fossils

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evidence from climate

Question 16

The geological theory that states that pieces of Earth's lithosphere are in constant, slow motion is the theory of

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plate tectonics

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subduction

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evolution

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seafloor spreading

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

The youngest rocks on the ocean floor are located ____.

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at mid-ocean ridges

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near continents

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far from mid-ocean ridges

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near Asia

Question 19

The crust and upper mantle make up Earth's ____.

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lithosphere

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asthenosphere

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core

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continents

Question 20

Seafloor spreading occurs because ____.

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molten material beneath Earth's crust rises to the surface

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new material is being added to the asthenosphere

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earthquakes break apart the ocean floor

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sediments accumulate at the area of spreading

PreTest 6 - Plate Tectonics

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