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WorksheetsTectonics Review
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 18mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Wegener used evidence from climate and _____ to prove the idea of continental drift.
a)
Mud
b)
Plants
c)
Fossils of plants and animals
d)
Predators
2.
Name this type of boundary
a)
Convergent boundary
b)
Divergent Boundary
c)
Transform boundary
d)
Dot boundary
3.
When an oceanic plate and a continental plate collide, which one will subduct?
a)
oceanic
b)
continental
c)
neither
4.
Which of these land forms can ONLY happen on a DIVERGENT BOUNDARY?
a)
Rift Valley
b)
Mountain
c)
A peninsula
d)
An Insanely complex, long answer that you will click out of instinct.
5.
Two tectonic plates collide at a _______ plate boundary.
a)
convergent
b)
divergent
c)
transform
6.
Large pieces of Earth's lithosphere that move around are called?
a)
Sections
b)
Plates
c)
Land Masses
d)
Faults
7.
What forms when two continental, convergent plates push together?
a)
volcano
b)
mountain
c)
earthquakes
d)
island
8.
What is the rocky outer layer of the Earth called?
a)
Landform
b)
Crust
c)
Mantle
d)
Outer core
9.
The thinnest layer of the Earth is?
a)
Mantle
b)
Lithosphere
c)
Athenosphere
d)
Crust
10.
Which part of the Earth is a semisolid and acts like a plastic?
a)
Lithosphere
b)
Mantle
c)
Asthenosphere
11.
The supercontinent made of most of Earth's landmass that separated 250 million years ago is called:
a)
Pangaea
b)
Gondwana
c)
Laurasia
d)
Superduperland
12.
Which kind of wave cannot travel through liquids?
a)
P-Waves
b)
Surface Waves
c)
Love Waves
d)
S-Waves
13.
About 75 percent of the world’s volcanoes are found
a)
around the Atlantic Ocean basin.
b)
along the mid-Atlantic ridge.
c)
around the Pacific Ocean basin.
d)
throughout the American Northwest.
14.
A line of volcanic activity that surrounds the Pacific Ocean basin is the
a)
Ring of Fire
b)
Aleutian Islands
c)
Hawaiian Islands
d)
Caribbean Islands
15.
An explosive eruption occurs if magma is
a)
low in viscosity
b)
high in silica
c)
very thin
16.
Once magma reaches the earth's surface it is called.....
a)
Silica
b)
Rock
c)
lava
17.
What are the fastest body waves?
a)
P waves
b)
T waves
c)
S waves
d)
Q waves
18.
How do scientists find the epicenter of an earthquake?
a)
by comparing arrival times of P waves and S waves at several seismograph stations
b)
by digging at several locations and comparing data
c)
by comparing departure times of P waves and S waves at several seismograph stations
d)
by reviewing satellite photos of tsunamis
19.
Is a break in the crust where slabs of crust slip past each other.
a)
compression
b)
Earthquake
c)
Volcano
d)
Fault
20.
Strike-slip faults form when this FORCE is applied.
a)
shearing
b)
tension
c)
compression
d)
transform
21.
Compression creates this type of FAULT.
a)
mountains
b)
reverse
c)
convergent
d)
normal
22.
A break in rock that does NOT shift is called a:
a)
Plate Boundary
b)
Fault
c)
Fracture
d)
Schism
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