Plate Tectonics Check

Plate Tectonics Check

12th Grade

10 Qs

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Plate Tectonics Check

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Geography

12th Grade

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Tristian Dixon

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10 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Name the scientist responsible for the continental drift hypothesis.

Alfred Wegener

Albert Einstein

Bill Nye

Neil Degrasse Tyson

2.

MATCH QUESTION

1 min • 5 pts

Match the following

Continental Continental Convergent

The plate boundary responsible for creating Volcanoes

Transform

The plate boundary responsible for creating Mountains

Oceanic Oceanic Convergent

The plate boundary responsible for creating Island Volcano Chains (Japan)

Divergent

The plate boundary responsible for creating new seafloor

Continental Oceanic Convergent

The plate boundary responsible for creating earthquakes in California

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

T or F: Lithospheric plates move on top of the Hotspot creating Volcanic Islands

True

False

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which of the following is NOT a compositional layer of earth?

Crust

Mantle

Core

Asthenosphere

5.

REORDER QUESTION

1 min • 5 pts

Reorder the following layers from surface (1), to core (5)

Inner Core

Outer Core

Asthenosphere

Lithosphere

Mesosphere

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which of the following layers is responsible for all magnetic activity on earth

Inner Core

Outer Core

Lithosphere

Asthenosphere

7.

MATCH QUESTION

1 min • 5 pts

Match the following

Seafloor Spreading

The phenomena that creates new seafloor

Ridge Push

the constant circulation of magma, this circulation is similar to air mass circulation

Plate Tectonics

The theory that states that the earth is consistent of plates that are in constant motion

Continental Drift

occurs when new magma rises to the surface, “pushing” older crust to the side as it rises

Mantle Convection

The hypothesis that the continents all once fit together in one Supercontinent

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