Plate Tectonics Quiz
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What rock assemblage would indicate a convergent (subduction) plate boundary?
blueschist, accretionary wedge, thrust faults
mafic volcanism, immature clastic sediments, normal faults
foliated metamorphic rocks, granite plutons, folding & thrust faulting.
a thick accumulation of mature layered sediments
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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What rock assemblage would indicate a divergent (seafloor spreading) boundary?
blueschist, accretionary wedge, thrust faults
mafic volcanism, immature clastic sediments, normal faults
foliated metamorphic rocks, granite plutons, folding & thrust faulting.
a sequence of peridotite, gabbro, sheeted dikes and pillow basalts
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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What rock assemblage would indicate a divergent (continental rifting) boundary?
blueschist, accretionary wedge, thrust faults
foliated metamorphic rocks, granite plutons, folding & thrust faulting.
mafic volcanism, immature clastic sediments, normal faults
a thick accumulation of mature layered sediments
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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What rock assemblage would indicate a convergent continental collision (mountain-building) boundary?
a sequence of peridotite, gabbro, sheeted dikes and pillow basalts
blueschist, accretionary wedge, thrust faults
foliated metamorphic rocks, granite plutons, folding & thrust faulting.
mafic volcanism, immature clastic sediments, normal faults
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Continents were formed through what process?
accretion of terrains (cratons)
eruption of pillow basalts
rifting
weathering and erosion
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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5
NGSS.HS-ESS2-1
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A wrench basin can be formed at what type of tectonic boundary?
transform
Convergent (subduction)
divergent (rifting)
passive
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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A foreland basin can form from what process?
"Loading" the crust with a thick mountain belt due to thrust faulting.
Subduction at a trench keeps the crust low which fills with sediment from a nearby volcanic arc.
Tensional forces caused by rising mantle material behind a volcanic arc over a subducted slab combined with with oceanic trench rollback
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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5
NGSS.HS-ESS2-1
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