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WorksheetsUnit 2 Plate Tectonics Review
Total questions: 38
Worksheet time: 19mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What boundary type causes Hot spots?
a)
Convergent
b)
None
c)
Convergent and DIvergent
d)
DIvergent
2.
What boundary type causes Hydrothermal Vents?
a)
Convergent
b)
Transform
c)
Convergent and DIvergent
d)
Divergent
3.
What boundary type causes Hot Springs?
a)
Convergent
b)
Transform
c)
Convergent and DIvergent
d)
Divergent
4.
What boundary type causes Geysers?
a)
Convergent
b)
Transform
c)
Convergent and DIvergent
d)
Divergent
5.
What boundary type causes Earthquakes?
a)
Convergent and Transform
b)
Transform, Divergent, Convergent
c)
Convergent and DIvergent
d)
Divergent
6.
What boundary type causes Tsunamis?
a)
Convergent and Transform
b)
Divergent
c)
Convergent and DIvergent
d)
Convergent
7.
What boundary type causes Faults?
a)
Divergent and Transform
b)
Divergent
c)
Convergent, Transform, Divergent
d)
Transform
8.
What boundary type causes Rift Valleys?
a)
Divergent and Transform
b)
Divergent
c)
Convergent, Transform, Divergent
d)
Transform
9.
What kind of fit did Continental Drift theorize that the continents had?
a)
Square-like fit
b)
Puzzle-like fit
c)
Random-fit
d)
No fit at all
10.
What type of boundary is this?
a)
Convergent
b)
Transform
c)
Divergent
d)
Surform
11.
What type of boundary is this?
a)
Convergent
b)
Transform
c)
Divergent
d)
Surform
12.
What type of boundary is this?
a)
Convergent
b)
Transform
c)
Divergent
d)
Surform
13.
What happens when two continental plates collide?
a)
One plate goes on top of the other one
b)
One plate slides under the other
c)
Non-Volcanic Mountains form
d)
Volcanoes form
14.
What is Pangea?
a)
A fossil found on two different continents long ago
b)
The last name of the guy who came up with continental drift?
c)
Another name for plate tectonics
d)
A theorized supercontinent that is made of all the continents
15.
During sea floor spreading, what happens to the magma in order to make new sea floor?
a)
It goes through the rock cycle
b)
It gains extra minerals in order to eventually harden
c)
It pushes dirt to the surface
d)
It cools and hardens
16.
What technology sends out radio signals from satellites to the stations on the crust? That technology then records the distance of waves, then checks to see if the distance changes.
a)
Radios
b)
UPS
c)
GPS
d)
Robots
17.
What layer are the tectonics plates in?
a)
Lithosphere
b)
Atmosphere
c)
Asthenosphere
d)
Mesosphere
18.
What layer do the tectonics plates move on?
a)
Lithosphere
b)
Atmosphere
c)
Asthenosphere
d)
Mesosphere
19.
What does the paleomagnetism provide evidence for?
a)
Continental Drift
b)
Sea Floor Spreading
20.
What does Matching fossils and rock structure on different continents provide evidence for?
a)
Continental Drift
b)
Sea Floor Spreading
21.
What does the puzzle like fit provide evidence for?
a)
Continental Drift
b)
Sea Floor Spreading
22.
What does the Climate evidence such as glacier sediment on different continents and coal in Great Britain provide evidence for?
a)
Continental Drift
b)
Sea Floor Spreading
23.
What does Sediment layered in order according to age provide evidence for?
a)
Continental Drift
b)
Sea Floor Spreading
24.
What do convection currents have to do with plate tectonics?
a)
The convection currents provide heat to warm up the plates to move
b)
The magma flows in circular patterns and the moving magma then moves the plates
c)
The magma in the currents pull in plates constantly down until they hit the center of Earth
d)
The magma moves water and the water pushes the plates
25.
Why is there a high frequency of Earthquakes every day?
a)
The plates are constantly moving and causing earthquakes
b)
There isn't a high frequency
c)
Volcanoes are constantly erupting
d)
The wind moves windmills which move the ground
26.
Why does subduction happen?
a)
Magma pulls one plate down
b)
It is at random
c)
The crust with the most groundwater goes below the other one
d)
One plate is denser than the other one so it drops below
27.
What happens at a convergent boundary?
a)
Two tectonic plates move
b)
Two tectonic plates collide together
c)
Two tectonic plates spread apart
d)
Two tectonic plates slide past each other
28.
What happens at a divergent boundary?
a)
Two tectonic plates move
b)
Two tectonic plates collide together
c)
Two tectonic plates spread apart
d)
Two tectonic plates slide past each other
29.
What happens at a transform boundary?
a)
Two tectonic plates move
b)
Two tectonic plates collide together
c)
Two tectonic plates spread apart
d)
Two tectonic plates slide past each other
30.
What are the two types of tectonic plates?
a)
Major and Minor
b)
Upper and Lower
c)
Inner and Outer
d)
Large and Small
31.
How does a convergent boundary turn into an erupting volcano?
a)
It can't
b)
The plates collide and create mountains, which eventually erupts
c)
A plate gets subducted, melts into molten rock, then rises to explode from a volcano
d)
The plates spread apart and magma comes up through the ridge
32.
How does a divergent boundary turn into an erupting volcano?
a)
It can't
b)
The plates collide and create mountains, which eventually erupts
c)
A plate gets subducted, melts into molten rock, then rises to explode from a volcano
d)
The plates spread apart and magma comes up through the ridge
33.
Which well-known boundary is formed by Hot Spots?
a)
Hawaiian Islands
b)
New Madrid Seismic Zone
c)
The Ring of Fire
d)
The San Andreas Fault
34.
What boundary type formed the New Madrid Seismic Zone?
a)
Convergent
b)
None
c)
Divergent
d)
Transform
35.
What boundary type formed the Mariana Trench?
a)
Convergent
b)
None
c)
Divergent
d)
Transform
36.
Which explains the difference between Continental Drift and the Theory of Plate Tectonics?
a)
There is no difference
b)
Plate tectonics is the theory that the plates are constantly moving and continental drift is the theory that the continents were once a supercontinent
c)
Continental Drift is the theory that the plates are constantly moving and Plate tectonics is the theory that the continents were once a supercontinent
d)
Plate tectonics moves water and continental drift moves land
37.
What boundary type causes Island Arcs?
a)
Convergent and Divergent
b)
Divergent
c)
Convergent
d)
None, Hot Spots
38.
Which of the following is not a type of convergent boundary?
a)
ocean ocean
b)
convergent convergent
c)
continent continent
d)
ocean continent
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