Quiz about C Plate Tectonics

Question 1

A bold dash line is between which two plates?

Accepted Answer

Eurasian and North American

Answer

Indo-Austrailian and Pacific

Answer

North American and South American

Answer

Eurasian and African

Question 2

The South American Plate is -

Accepted Answer

D

Answer

A

Answer

B

Answer

C

Question 3

Plate A is called-

Accepted Answer

Eurasian

Answer

Indo-Australian

Answer

African

Answer

North American

Question 4

Plate E is called -

Accepted Answer

Australian

Answer

Eurasian

Answer

South American

Answer

North American

Question 5

Plate C is called

Accepted Answer

Pacific

Answer

North American

Answer

African

Answer

Austrialian

Question 6

Which boundary formed the Himalayan Mountains?

Accepted Answer

F Convergent

Answer

G Divergent

Answer

H Transform

Answer

J None

Question 7

Ocean basin forms at which type of plate boundary?

Accepted Answer

Divergent

Answer

Transform

Answer

Convergent

Answer

Oceanic

Question 8

What geologic event most likely occurs at this plate boundary and what type of boundary is it?

Accepted Answer

Earthquakes, transform

Answer

Ocean basin , divergent

Answer

mountains, convergent

Answer

volcanic eruptions, subduction

Question 9

What causes the plates to move?

Accepted Answer

Convection currents in the asthenosphere

Answer

Temperature of oceanic crust

Answer

Thickness of Earth's Layers

Answer

Density of continental crust

Question 10

Which picture is the best model of the Earth's layers?

Accepted Answer

C

Answer

A

Answer

B

Answer

D

Question 11

Which layer represents a solid metal?

Accepted Answer

4

Answer

1

Answer

2

Answer

3

Question 12

Which layer represents a liquid metal?

Accepted Answer

3

Answer

1

Answer

2

Answer

4

Question 13

Which layer has convection currents that cause the lithosphere to break into plates and move?

Accepted Answer

2

Answer

1

Answer

3

Answer

4

Question 14

Which layer is the crust?

Accepted Answer

1

Answer

2

Answer

3

Answer

4

Question 15

What type of rock made of pressing sediments into layers?

Accepted Answer

Sedimentary

Answer

Igneous

Answer

Metamorphic

Answer

lava

Question 16

Which type of rock is melted then cools and hardens?

Accepted Answer

Igneous

Answer

Metamorphic

Answer

Sedimentary

Answer

Magma

Question 17

What processes form igneous rock?

Accepted Answer

Melting, Cooling, Hardening

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Compaction and cementation

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Weathering erosion, deposition

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Extreme heat and pressure

Question 18

Between what 2 plates are transform boundaries?

Accepted Answer

North American and Pacific

Answer

South American and African

Answer

Indo-Australian and Pacific

Answer

Eurasian and North American

Question 19

Between which 2 plates is a divergent ?

Accepted Answer

North American/ Eurasian and South America/African

Answer

North American/Pacific

and African/Eurasian

Answer

Indo-Australian/Pacific

and

Eurasian/Arctic

Answer

North American/African and

Arctic/SouthAmerican

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