A Level Edexcel Tectonics Quiz

What is a hazard?

• A potential threat to human life and property

• A beneficial natural event

• A type of weather pattern

• A geological formation

What is an intraplate earthquake?

• An earthquake that occurs near the middle of plates

• An earthquake that occurs at plate boundaries

• An earthquake caused by volcanic activity

• An earthquake caused by human activity

What is a hotspot volcanic ?

• A volcano or series of volcanoes that occur away from plate boundaries, e.g Hawaii.

• A place where two tectonic plates collide

• A region with frequent rainfall

• A type of weather phenomenon

What causes convection currents in the mantle?

• Radioactive reactions in the core

• Solar radiation

• Ocean currents

• Wind patterns

Which theory states that the shapes of South America and Africa seem to fit together and were once part of a supercontinent?

• Plate Tectonic Theory

• Sea Floor Spreading Theory

• Wegner’s Continental Drift Theory

• Palaeomagnetism Theory

What evidence supports the idea that continents were once connected and have since drifted apart?

• Fossils

• Ocean trenches

• Earthquakes

• Volcanoes

What is studied to identify the age of the oceanic crust and prove that the earth did once fit together?

• Seismic waves

• Fossils

• Palaeomagnetism

• Ocean trenches

What is the term for the depth of waves that shows subduction of the denser basaltic oceanic plates into the upper mantle?

• Sea Floor Spreading

• Wegner’s Continental Drift Theory

• Palaeomagnetism

• Wadati-Benioff foci

What is the result of the pressure build-up between two continental plates moving together?

• Formation of island arcs

• Formation of a deep ocean trench

• Formation of fold mountains

• Formation of sea floor spreading

In a conservative plate boundary, how do the parallel plates move?

• In the same direction at the same speed

• In different directions or at different speeds

• Vertically

• They do not move