Mrs. Chesser Plate Tectonics Quiz Review

The newest crust would be found in which location?

• inside a volcano

• at a mid ocean ridge

• Near an earthquake

• at a mountain range

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What causes the tectonic plates of Earth to continually move?

• Rotation of the core

• strong winds on the crust

• volcanic and seismice activity on the crust

• convection currents in the mantle

Tectonic motion caused tension between plates in Earth’s crust. A sudden release of this energy occurred. Based on this information, which event happened?

• subsidence

• earthquake

• volcanic eruption

• meteoroid impact

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Which of these best explains how tectonic-plate movement causes the formation of mountain ranges?

• Convection currents in the mantle force two plates to collide.

• Sediment builds upward due to crushing forces of subducting plates.

• The plates separate, allowing the asthenosphere to push through and later cool.

• Pressure from colliding plates melts rock that later cools to form large boulders.

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Transform boundaries are found when two plates slide side by side, what type of geological events are commonly found at the boundary?

• earthquakes

• mountain building

• landslides

• volcanoes

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Divergent plates are found where two plates:

• move towards each other

• move away from each other

• don't move

• slide side by side

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At mid-ocean ridges, new ______ is created

• water

• mantle

• crust

• core

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Geologists were examining an area in Africa called the Great Rift Valley. Which geologic event most likely caused the formation of the valley?

• impacts from meteors

  collision of tectonic plates

• movement of glaciers

• diverging continental plates

• collision of tectonic plates

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What causes the sea floor to spread apart at mid-ocean ridges?

• Hot magma rises through the boundary at the mid-ocean ridges, creating new rock and pushing apart the plates.

• The Earth's magnetic field is so strong it pushes apart the iron-filled rocks at the mid-ocean ridges.

• The Earth is growing in size (though we don't know why) and the mid-ocean ridges are where the crust has cracked to allow the Earth to get bigger.

• The waves in the ocean pull the plates away from each other.  This happens at the mid-ocean ridges.

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What is the Ring of Fire?

• a rift valley in the Atlantic Ocean

• a group of hot spots in the middle of the Pacific Ocean

• an area of active mountain building in Africa

• a belt of volcanoes around the Pacific Ocean

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