Plate Tectonics Test Review

Crust is neither destroyed nor formed along which of the following boundaries?

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transform

• Magnetic

One of the driving forces of tectonic plates are related to convection currents in Earth's:

• Crust

• Mantle

• Inner core

• Outer core

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Continental drift was not widely accepted when it was first proposed because:

• Wegener couldn't explain why or how the continents moved

• Continental land masses were too big to move slowly over Earth's surface

• Magnetic and sonar data proved that Wegener's hypothesis was incorrect

• Mantle convection currents weren't in motion at that time

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

The magnetic pattern of ocean-floor rocks on one side of an ocean ridge is:

• A mirror image of that on the other side

• Younger than on the other side

• Much different from the magnetic pattern found in rocks on land

• At right angles to the ocean ridge

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Continental-continental plate collisions produce:

• Island arcs

• Rift valleys

• Deep-sea trenches

• Very tall mountain ranges

A vast, underwater mountain chain forms at a(n): 

• Deep-sea trench

• Seamount

• Ocean ridge

• Submarine canyon

_______________ is defined as the study of the history of Earth’s magnetic field: 

• Paleogeology

• Ocean topography

• Paleomagnetism

• Magnetic symmetry 

At an oceanic-oceanic convergent boundary, _____:

• New crust is created

• Old crust is recycled by subduction

• Old crust is deformed or fractured

• Plates slide past one another

The downward part of a convection current causes a sinking force that:

• Pulls tectonic plates toward one another

• Moves plates apart from one another

• Lifts and splits the lithosphere

• Creates a divergent boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Many early mapmakers thought Earth’s continents had moved based on:

• Plate boundary locations 

• Fossil evidence

• Climatic data

• Matching coastlines

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3