Geo 12 Exam 2

What kind of landform is created when a continent starts to get torn apart?

• Volcanic Island

• Deep Sea Trench

• Mid-ocean Ridge

• Rift Valley

• Mountains

The North American plate and Pacific plates meet at the San Andres Fault in California causing frequent earthquakes. This fault is located at a _____ boundary.

• Ridge

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Transform

Study this diagram carefully, noticing the direction of the arrows.The green bars are tectonic plates.What will happen at the place where the star is drawn on this diagram?

• The plates will slide past each other (causing a major earthquake)

• The plates will hit each other (one will subduct)

• The plates will diverge (spread apart)

What type of event will occur at this boundary?

• Earthquake

• Volcano Eruption

• Tornado

• Mountain Building

A divergent boundary occurs when plates ....

• Pull apart

• Come together

• Slide past each other

• subducting

The Great Rift Valley in Africa and the Mid-Ocean Ridge were all created by this boundary

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Reform

• Transform

What geologic process formed the Himalayas?

• two continental plates converging

• an earthquake in a subduction zone

• a tectonic plate moving over a hot spot

• movement at a transform fault boundary

What are the two types of crust

• continental and oceanic
• ocean and upper
• lower and upper
• pizza and subway

How did geologists feel about Wegener's theory?

• They ridiculed him and did not accept his theory.

• They were thrilled with him for finding the answers.

• They accepted only a part of his theory.

• They did not agree, but welcomed his work.

"Used to describe both sudden slip on a fault, and the resulting ground shaking and radiated seismic energy caused by the slip"

• Fault

• Triangulation

• Seismology

• Earthquake