Quiz about Plate Tectonics Test Review

Question 1

The hypothesis that states that the continents once formed a single landmass, broke up, and drifted to their present locations

Accepted Answer

Continental Drift

Answer

Plate Tectonics

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Theory

Answer

Plate Boundaries

Question 2

A theory stating that the earth's surface is broken into plates that move

Accepted Answer

Plate Tectonics

Answer

Continental Drift

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Theory

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Plate Boundaries

Question 3

a system of ideas that explains many related observations about the natural world

Accepted Answer

Theory

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Law

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Observation

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Subduction

Question 4

An underwater mountain chain where new ocean floor is formed

Accepted Answer

Mid-ocean Ridges

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Volcano

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Sea-floor Spreading

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Subduction

Question 5

the process by which new sea floor is formed as it moves away from spreading centers in mid ocean ridges

Accepted Answer

Sea-floor Spreading

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Mid-ocean Ridge

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Subduction

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Plate Boundaries

Question 6

the process by which one tectonic plate is pulled beneath another plate

Accepted Answer

Subduction

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Deformation

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Convection Currents

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Ridge Push

Question 7

A change of the magnetic poles

Accepted Answer

magnetic reversal

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magnetic shift

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magnetic inversion

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magnetic flip

Question 8

any movement of matter that results from differences in density

Accepted Answer

Convection Current

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Subduction

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Deformation

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Magnetic Reversal

Question 9

the bending, tilting, and breaking of Earth's crust; the change in the shape of rock in response to stress

Accepted Answer

Deformation

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Faults

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Convergent

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Divergent

Question 10

A plate boundary where two plates move toward each other and collide

Accepted Answer

Convergent

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Divergent

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Transform

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All of these

Question 11

A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other

Accepted Answer

Divergent

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Convergent

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Transform

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All of these

Question 12

A plate boundary where two plates move past each other in opposite directions

Accepted Answer

Transform

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Convergent

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Divergent

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All of these

Question 13

the deepest parts of the ocean floor

Accepted Answer

Ocean Trenches

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Subduction

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Faults

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Blocks

Question 14

A mountain formed by blocks of rock uplifted from normal faults

Accepted Answer

fault-block mountain

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uplifted mountain

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rock-block mountain

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faulted mountain

Question 15

the process by which Earth's crust breaks apart; can occur within continental crust or oceanic crust

Accepted Answer

Rifting

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Deformation

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Faults

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Cracks

Question 16

where two or more tectonic plates meet

Accepted Answer

Tectonic Plate Boundary

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Theory of Continental Drift

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Divergent

Answer

Continents

Question 17

The return of rock to its original shape after elastic deformation

Accepted Answer

Elastic Rebound

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Tectonic Plates

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Subduction

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Deformation

Question 18

ground movements that occur when blocks of rock in Earth move suddenly and release energy

Accepted Answer

Earthquakes

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Tsunamis

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Volcanoes

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All of these

Question 19

A place within Earth along a fault at which the first motion of an earthquake occurs

Accepted Answer

Focus

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Earthquakes

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Seismic Waves

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Epicenter

Question 20

Point on Earth's surface directly above an earthquake's focus

Accepted Answer

Epicenter

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Focus

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Earthquake

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Seismic Waves

Question 21

Mid-ocean ridges are found along what plate boundary?

Accepted Answer

Divergent

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Convergent

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Transform

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All of these

Question 22

Where are the older rock located along mid-ocean ridges?

Accepted Answer

near the edges

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in the center

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all around

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none of these

Question 23

Why was continental drift not widely accepted?

Accepted Answer

there was no mechanism for how the plates move

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there was no evidence

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it was accepted

Question 24

What type of plate is made up of basalt?

Accepted Answer

Oceanic

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Continental

Question 25

What type of stress goes along with transform boundaries?

Accepted Answer

Shear Stress

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Compression

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Tension

Question 26

What plate boundaries destroy rock (2)

Accepted Answer

Convergent

Accepted Answer

Transform

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Divergent

Question 27

Where is the most damage from earthquakes found

Accepted Answer

Near the epicenter

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On seismic waves

Question 28

Subduction occurs at what plate boundary

Accepted Answer

Convergent

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Divergent

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Transform

Question 29

What is found along the ring of fire?

Accepted Answer

Both earthquakes and volcanoes

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Tsunamis

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Earthquakes

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Volcanoes

Question 30

Energy in earthquakes is released as

Accepted Answer

Seismic waves

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Faults

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Energy

Answer

Plate Boundaries

Question 31

What was the single landmass called?

Accepted Answer

Pangea

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Laurasia

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Gondwana

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Supercontinent

Question 32

How were fossils found on different continents

Accepted Answer

Continents were once connected

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They travelled in the wind

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They travelled when they were alive

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None of the above

Question 33

Stress that squeezes or shortens material

Accepted Answer

Compression

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Transform

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Convergent

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Shear Stress

Question 34

Which of these drives the motion of the plates in the molten mantle

Accepted Answer

Convection currents

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Ridge push

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Slab pull

Answer

Plate tectonics

Question 35

Which of the following explains the motion of plate tectonics

Accepted Answer

All of these

Answer

Mantle convection

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Ridge Push

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Slab Pull

Question 36

If an oceanic crust collides with a continental crust, which one subducts?

Accepted Answer

Oceanic

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Continental

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Both

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Neither

Question 37

What type of plate boundary is shown in the picture?

Accepted Answer

Divergent

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Convergent

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Transform

Question 38

What type of plate boundary is shown in the picture?

Accepted Answer

Transform

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Convergent

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Divergent

Question 39

What type of plate boundary is shown in the picture?

Accepted Answer

Convergent

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Divergent

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Transform

Question 40

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

Accepted Answer

Earthquake

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Volcano

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Mountain

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Mid-Ocean Ridge

Question 41

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

Accepted Answer

Mid-Ocean Ridge

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Rift Valley

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Mountain

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Volcano

Question 42

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

Accepted Answer

Rift Valley

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Mid-Ocean Ridge

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Mountain

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Volcano

Question 43

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

Accepted Answer

Mountain

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Mid-Ocean Ridge

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Oceanic Trench

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Volcano

Question 44

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

Accepted Answer

Ocean Trench

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Rift Valley

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Mid-Ocean Ridge

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Mountain

Question 45

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

Accepted Answer

Subduction

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Convegent

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Divergent

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Transform

Question 46

The Great Rift Valley in Africa and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge were both created by this type of plate boundary.

Accepted Answer

Divergent

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Convergent

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Transform

Question 47

What are the two types of crust?

Accepted Answer

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 48

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

Accepted Answer

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 49

Most geologists rejected Alfred Wegener's idea of continental drift because...

Accepted Answer

Wegener could not identify the force that moved the continents

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it did not agree with their current theory

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Wegener was interested in what Earth was like millions of years ago

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Wegener used several different types of evidence to support his hypothesis

Question 50

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

Accepted Answer

plate tectonics

Answer

subduction

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evolution

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seafloor spreading

Question 51

A water wave caused by an earthquake is called a __________________.

Accepted Answer

tsunami

Answer

seismic wave

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electromagnetic wave

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surfing wave

Question 52

The point on earth's surface, directly above the focus (or hypocenter) is called the __________________.

Accepted Answer

epicenter

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fault

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seismic wave

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earthquake place

Question 53

Stress that pull on crust and causes it to become thinner in the middle.

Accepted Answer

tension

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compression

Answer

shearing

Plate Tectonics Test Review

53 questions

The hypothesis that states that the continents once formed a single landmass, broke up, and drifted to their present locations

A theory stating that the earth's surface is broken into plates that move

a system of ideas that explains many related observations about the natural world

An underwater mountain chain where new ocean floor is formed

the process by which new sea floor is formed as it moves away from spreading centers in mid ocean ridges

the process by which one tectonic plate is pulled beneath another plate

A change of the magnetic poles

any movement of matter that results from differences in density

the bending, tilting, and breaking of Earth's crust; the change in the shape of rock in response to stress

A plate boundary where two plates move toward each other and collide

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