Quiz about Plate Tectonics

Question 1

What hypothesis by Alfred Wegener explains why continents seem to fit together?

Accepted Answer

Continental Drift

Answer

Continental Spreading

Answer

Plate Tectonics

Answer

Wegner's Puzzle

Question 2

According to Wegener, how many landmasses did all continents once form?

Accepted Answer

1

Answer

3

Answer

5

Answer

7

Question 3

What did Wegener hypothesize happened to the continents?

Accepted Answer

They broke up on drifted to their current locations

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They broke apart and reformed

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They drifted together to form a single continent

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They sank into the ocean

Question 4

Wegener used fossils of the mesosaurus, a swimming reptile, and the glossopteris, a fern, found of different sides of the Atlantic to support his theory of continental drift.

Accepted Answer

True

Answer

False

Question 5

What were the three types of evidence found on both sides of the ocean that support Wegener's theory of continental drift?

Accepted Answer

Similar fossils, similar rocks, and glacier tracks

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Similar fossils, similar water sources, and similar people

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Similar rocks, similar houses, and similar glacier tracks

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Similar rocks, similar fossils, and simial water sources

Question 6

Wegener thought that all of the present continents were once joined 245 million years ago in a giant land mass. What was it called?

Accepted Answer

Pangea

Answer

Sea-floor spreading

Answer

Laurasis

Answer

Magnetic Reversal

Question 7

The single landmass that split into two continents that were called Gondwana and _________ about 180 million years ago. What was the name of the second continent?

Accepted Answer

Laurasis

Answer

Sea-floor Spreading

Answer

Pangea

Answer

Magnetic Reversal

Question 8

What is the process of adding new oceanic lithosphere at mid-ocean ridges called?

Accepted Answer

Sea-floor spreading

Answer

Magnetic Reversal

Answer

Ocean Splitting

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Ocean shrinking

Question 9

Rock on the ocean floor provided the final proof of seafloor spreading with a record of _____________. What is this called

Accepted Answer

Magnetic Reversal

Answer

Sea-floor Spreading

Answer

Mid Ocean Ridges

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Ocean Trenches

Question 10

Scientists did not believe Wegener's theory because he could not explain how and why the continents moved.

Accepted Answer

True

Answer

False

Question 11

What is the process of forming new oceanic lithosphere as magma rises to the surface called?

Accepted Answer

Sea-floor Spreading

Answer

Continental Drift

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Mid-Ocean Ridges

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Magnetic Reversal

Question 12

Where are the areas where sea-floor spreading takes place?

Accepted Answer

Mid-Ocean Ridges

Answer

Continental Drift

Answer

Sea-Floor Spreading

Answer

Magnetic Reversal

Question 13

What is the process that happens when Earth's magnetic poles change places called?

Accepted Answer

Magnetic Reversal

Answer

Continental Drift

Answer

Mid-Ocean Ridges

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Sea-floor Spreading

Question 14

What is the current theory that explains how the continents reached their current locations?

Accepted Answer

Continental Drift

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Mid-Ocean Ridges

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Sea-floor Spreading

Answer

Magnetic Reversal

Question 15

What is a substance composed of two or more elements called

Accepted Answer

Compound

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Mixture

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Amalgam

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Complex

Question 16

What do scientists use to study Earth's interior?

Accepted Answer

Seismic Waves

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Sea-floor Spreading rates

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Magnetic Reversals

Answer

Global Positioning Systems (GPS)

Question 17

What are seismic waves?

Accepted Answer

Vibrations from earthquakes

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Movements in the outer core

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Pictures of Earth's interior

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Vibrations from a seismograph

Question 18

What is the outermost layer of the Earth?

Accepted Answer

Lithosphere

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Asthenosphere

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Mesosphere

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Tectonic Plate

Question 19

What is the layer of slowly flowing rock in the mantel called?

Accepted Answer

Asthenosphere

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Lithosphere

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Mesosphere

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Inner Core

Question 20

What is the liquid layer of the core called

Accepted Answer

Outer Core

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Inner Core

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Middle Core

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Main Core

Question 21

What is the strong, lower part of the mantle called?

Accepted Answer

Mesosphere

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Asthenosphere

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Lithosphere

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Sphere

Question 22

What is the solid layer of the core called?

Accepted Answer

Inner Core

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Outer Core

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Middle Core

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Main Core

Question 23

What is a block of lithosphere that consists of the crust and the rigid, outermost part of the mantel called?

Accepted Answer

Tectonic Plate

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Asthenosphere

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Lithosphere

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Mesosphere

Question 24

Seismic waves traveling through a solid will move slower than a seismic wave traveling through a liquid. The speed of a seismic wave will depend on the density and composition of the material they pass through.

Accepted Answer

False

Answer

True

Question 25

What is the thin solid outermost layer of the Earth above the mantle called?

Accepted Answer

Crust

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Mantle

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Core

Question 26

What is the layer of rock between the Earth's crust and it's core called

Accepted Answer

Mantle

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Crust

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Core

Question 27

What is the central part of the Earth below the mantle called?

Accepted Answer

Core

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Crust

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Mantle

Question 28

What is the boundary called that forms when two tectonic plates collide?

Accepted Answer

Convergent Boundary

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Transform Boundary

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Divergent Boundary

Question 29

What is the boundary called that is formed when tectonic plates separate called?

Accepted Answer

Divergent Coundary

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Transform Boundary

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Convergent Boundary

Question 30

What is the boundary called when two tectonic plates slide past each other?

Accepted Answer

Transform Boundary

Answer

Divergent Boundary

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Convergent Boundary

Question 31

What is the theory that the Earth is divided into plates that move around called?

Accepted Answer

Plate Tectonics

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Ridge Push

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Convection

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Slab Pull

Question 32

What is it called when plates move due to higher density?

Accepted Answer

Slab Pull

Answer

Ridge Push

Answer

Convection

Answer

Plate Tectonics

Question 33

What is the plate motion called that is due to the heating and cooling of rocks?

Accepted Answer

Plate Tectonics

Answer

Ridge Push

Answer

Convection

Answer

Slab Pull

Question 34

What is plate motion due to gravity called?

Accepted Answer

Ridge Push

Answer

Convection

Answer

Plate Tectonics

Answer

Slab Pull

Question 35

The place where tectonic plates touch is known as ________.

Accepted Answer

Tectonic Boundary

Answer

Continental Plate

Answer

Magma Zone

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Tectonic Ridge

Question 36

Which of the following in NOT a plate boundary?

Accepted Answer

Fault Block Boundary

Answer

Convergent Boundary

Answer

Divergent Boundary

Answer

Transform Boundary

Question 37

What are three ways plates can move relative to each other?

Accepted Answer

Collide, separate, and slide

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Collide, fuse, and slide

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Drift, separate, and slide

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Collide, fuse, and drift

Question 38

When rock is heated, it becomes less dense and tends to ____________

Accepted Answer

Rise

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Sink

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Move Sideways

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Break apart

Question 39

When rock cools, it becomes more dense and tends to ___________

Accepted Answer

Sink

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Rise

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Move Sideways

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Break apart

Question 40

How fast to tectonic plates move?

Accepted Answer

Centimeters per year

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Kilometers per year

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Meters per year

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Meters per month

Question 41

What do scientists use to measure the rate of tectonic plate movement?

Accepted Answer

Global Positioning Systems (GPS)

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Clinometers

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Densitometers

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Seismographs

Question 42

What is the amount of force given on a material called?

Accepted Answer

Stress

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Bending

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Stretching

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Breakage

Question 43

What is the process by which the shape of a rock changes because of stress called?

Accepted Answer

Deformation

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Seismology

Answer

Elasticity

Answer

Re-formation

Question 44

When stress squeezes an object it is called_________

Accepted Answer

Compression

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Re-formation

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Convergence

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Tension

Question 45

When stress stretches an object it is called _____________.

Accepted Answer

Tension

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Conpression

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Re-formation

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Convergence

Question 46

The bending of rock layers due to stress is known as ____________.

Accepted Answer

Folding

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Faulting

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Divergence

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Convergence

Question 47

When rock layers break, the resulting surface they break and slide on is called ___________.

Accepted Answer

A fault

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A wall

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A Slids

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A fold

Question 48

When tension pulls rocks apart, it creates a _______________.

Accepted Answer

Normal fault

Answer

A fold

Answer

A reverse fault

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a strike-slip fault

Question 49

When compression pushes rocks together, it creates a _____________.

Accepted Answer

Reverse fault

Answer

Normal fault

Answer

Mid-ocean ridge

Answer

Strike-slip fault

Question 50

When opposing forces cause rock to break and move horizontally, the create a ____________.

Accepted Answer

Strike-slip fault

Answer

Normal fault

Answer

Fold

Answer

Reverse Fault

Question 51

When tectonic plates collide, folds and faults can become

Accepted Answer

Mountain ranges

Answer

Volcanoes

Answer

Divergent boundaries

Answer

Mid-ocean ridges

Question 52

What kind of mountain range is formed when rock layers are squeezed and forced upward?

Accepted Answer

Folded mountains

Answer

Fault-block mountains

Answer

Volcanic mountains

Answer

Saltire-slip mountains

Question 53

What kind of mountain range is formed when tension caused large blocks of crust to drop down?

Accepted Answer

Fault-block mountains

Answer

Folded mountains

Answer

Volcanic mountains

Answer

Strike-slip mountains

Question 54

What kind of mountains are formed when magma rises to the surface and erupts?

Accepted Answer

Volcanic mountains

Answer

Folded mountains

Answer

Strike-slip mountains

Answer

Fault-block mountains

Question 55

The rising of the Earth's crust to a higher elevation is called ___________.

Accepted Answer

Uplift

Answer

Deformation

Answer

Subsidence

Answer

Uprise

Question 56

The sinking of the Earth's crust to lower elevations is called _____________.

Accepted Answer

Subsidence

Answer

Uplift

Answer

Uprise

Answer

Rebound

Question 57

When the Earth's crust slowly springs back to its original elevation it is called ______________.

Accepted Answer

Rebound

Answer

Uplift

Answer

Subsidence

Answer

Uprise

Question 58

A Rift Zone is a set of cracks that form when two tectonic plates are pulling away from each other.

Accepted Answer

True

Answer

False

Question 59

The farther the oceanic lithosphere is from the mid-ocean ridge the younger it is.

Accepted Answer

False

Answer

True

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