WorksheetsLessons 2 & 3 Review: Plate Tectonics & Landforms
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
In the early 1900s, a German scientist presented the idea of continental drift. What was this scientist's name?
a)
Harry Hess
b)
Alexander von Humboldt
c)
Abraham Ortelius
d)
Alfred Wegener
2.
Tectonic plates are broken pieces of which physical layer of Earth?
a)
Lithosphere
b)
Asthenosphere
c)
Mesosphere
d)
Mantle
3.
Mid-ocean ridges form at which type of plate boundary?
a)
Convergent
b)
Divergent
c)
Transform
d)
Compression
4.
What is one benefit to society that has come from scientists studying plate tectonics?
a)
New dinosaur species are identified
b)
Valuable resources such as minerals are found
c)
Airplane designs have improved overall
d)
There is no benefit to society from studying this
5.
This diagram shows rock being transformed by one type of stress. What type of stress is being shown?
a)
Compression
b)
Tension
c)
Shear stress
d)
Fault
6.
Why do fault-block mountains ranges sometimes form along divergent boundaries?
a)
Rock is stretched apart and magma is able to come up through the breaks
b)
Rock breaks, some falling to valleys and some rising to mountains
c)
Rocks from the more dense plate subduct underneath the less dense plate
d)
Hot spots allow magma from the mantle to come through the crust
7.
On which type of plate would you find thicker, less dense crust?
a)
Oceanic plate
b)
Continental plate
c)
Volcanic plate
d)
Lithospheric plate
8.
What can cause geysers to form far from plate boundaries?
a)
rifting
b)
folding
c)
hot spots
d)
subduction
9.
Which type of stress occurs at transform boundaries?
a)
Compression
b)
Tension
c)
Shear stress
d)
Earthquakes
10.
What would most likely explain the movement of this fence?
a)
The fence runs across a transform boundary
b)
The fence runs across a convergent boundary
c)
The fence runs across a divergent boundary
d)
The fence runs close to a volcano
11.
Which was NOT a piece of evidence that supported the idea of continental drift?
a)
Fossils from the same dinosaur species in Africa and South America
b)
Similar glacial patterns in Antarctica, Australia, and India
c)
Puzzle piece like coastlines in South America and Africa
d)
Older seafloor existing farther away from mid-ocean ridges
12.
Convection currents in which layer of Earth are responsible for tectonic plate movement?
a)
Lithosphere
b)
Asthenosphere
c)
Mesosphere
d)
Inner core
13.
What causes convection currents in the mantle?
a)
Heat from the core
b)
Tectonic plate motion
c)
Continental drift
d)
Earth's rotation on its axis
14.
Which of the following landforms is created by the process of seafloor spreading?
a)
Ocean trenches
b)
Fault-block mountains
c)
Earthquakes
d)
Mid-ocean ridges
15.
Which landform is created when a dense oceanic plate subducts under a continental plate, melting lithosphere and forcing magma up through the surface?
a)
Volcanic island arc
b)
Continental volcanic arc
c)
Folded mountains
d)
Fault-block mountains
16.
Look at this figure.
Which best summarizes the hypothesis shown in the figure?
Which best summarizes the hypothesis shown in the figure?
a)
Rising ocean levels separated Laurasia from Gondwanaland
b)
Magnetic reversals gradually pulled Gondwanaland to the south
c)
The continents gradually drifted away from each other to current positions
d)
Seafloor spreading in the Atlantic ocean separated Laurasia and Gondwana
17.
Which type of tectonic plate boundary occurs where the Indian plate collides with the Himalayas?
a)
Convergent
b)
Divergent
c)
Transform
d)
Fault
18.
Based on this map, which of the following is true of both earthquakes and volcanoes?
a)
Both are always very destructive
b)
Both happen only in the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans
c)
Both are completely unpredictable
d)
Both tend to occur along plate boundaries
19.
Why does oceanic lithosphere subduct underneath continental lithosphere at convergent boundaries?
a)
Oceanic lithosphere is more dense
b)
Continental lithosphere is more dense
c)
Both types of lithosphere are equally dense
d)
The weight of ocean water is pushing oceanic plates down
20.
Which landform is being formed in this diagram?
a)
Volcano
b)
Mid-ocean ridge
c)
Rift valley
d)
Folded mountains
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