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WorksheetsPlate tectonics review
Total questions: 39
Worksheet time: 30mins
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Class
Date
1.
What would you be most likely to find at a transform boundary?
a)
Earthquakes
b)
Volcanoes
c)
Mountains
d)
Rift
2.
What would you be most likely to find at a convergent boundary between two pieces of oceanic crust?
a)
Mountains
b)
Rift
c)
Mid-Ocean Ridge
d)
Island Arc
3.
What would you be most likely to find at a convergent boundary between a continental and oceanic plate?
a)
Folded Mountains
b)
Volcanoes Mountain
c)
Mid-Ocean Ridge
d)
Rift
4.
What would you be most likely to find at a divergent boundary between two pieces of oceanic crust?
a)
Rift
b)
Mid-Ocean Ridge
c)
Island Arc
d)
Flat land
5.
What would you be most likely to find at a convergent boundary between two pieces of continental crust?
a)
Volcanic Mountains
b)
Folded Mountain
c)
Rift
d)
Island Arc
6.
A subduction zone is formed...
a)
when one tectonic plate sinks below another
b)
at every type of convergent plate boundary
c)
at every type of divergent plate boundary
d)
at transform boundaries
7.
Which of the following words/phrases would correctly fill in the blank?
Continental Drift and Sea-floor spreading were combined into the new more recent theory of ___________.
Continental Drift and Sea-floor spreading were combined into the new more recent theory of ___________.
a)
Hess
b)
Pangaea
c)
Plate Tectonics
d)
Wegener
8.
Wegener believed that all the continents were connected at one time. What did he call this one large land mass?
a)
Pancakes
b)
Pangaea
c)
Pancreas
d)
Patches
9.
Earthquakes typically occur _________________.
a)
In the middle of tectonic plates
b)
only in California
c)
only in the middle of the ocean
d)
along plate boundaries
10.
What is the term for a heavier, denser plate sliding under a less dense plate?
a)
plate boundary
b)
submersion
c)
accretion
d)
subduction
11.
What process is occurring at Z?
a)
Convection currents
b)
Subduction
c)
Two plates moving apart
d)
New ocean floor forming
12.
Name the boundary
a)
Divergent
b)
Convergent
c)
Transform
13.
Name the boundary
a)
Divergent
b)
Convergent
c)
Transform
14.
Name the boundary
a)
Divergent
b)
Convergent
c)
Transform
15.
Name the boundary
a)
Divergent
b)
Convergent
c)
Transform
16.
India and Asia crashed about 55 million years ago. What mountain range was produced?
a)
The Rockies
b)
The Alps
c)
The Himalayas
d)
The Andes
17.
When two oceanic plates converge what landform is produced?
a)
A lake and not trench
b)
A river with no trench
c)
Folded mountain range and a trench
d)
Island Arch and a trench
18.
Where is the oldest rock found?
a)
Near mid ocean ridges
b)
near subduction zones
c)
closer to the north pole
d)
closer to the south pole
19.
Where is the youngest rock found?
a)
Close to a mid ocean ridge
b)
near a subduction zone
c)
closer to the north pole
d)
closer to the south pole
20.
What type of boundary is the San Andreas Fault?
a)
convergent
b)
divergent
c)
transform
21.
What happens when the area in which you live tilts away from the sun?
a)
It is summer.
b)
It is spring.
c)
It is winter.
d)
It is fall.
22.
Which season is taking place in the Southern Hemisphere in Position 1?
a)
Winter
b)
Spring
c)
Summer
d)
Fall
23.
Which season is taking place in the Northern Hemisphere in Position 2?
a)
Winter
b)
Spring
c)
Summer
d)
Fall
24.
Which season is taking place in the Northern Hemisphere in Position 3?
a)
Winter
b)
Spring
c)
Summer
d)
Fall
25.
Which season is taking place in the Southern Hemisphere in Position 4?
a)
Winter
b)
Spring
c)
Summer
d)
Fall
26.
Which moon phase is shown in this diagram?
a)
new moon
b)
1st quarter
c)
full moon
d)
last quarter/3rd quarter
27.
Which moon phase is shown in this diagram?
a)
new moon
b)
first quarter
c)
full moon
d)
last quarter/3rd quarter
28.
Tides are caused by ___________
a)
wind
b)
gravitational pull of moon
c)
waves gravitation toward land
d)
rain
29.
What phase is this?
a)
Waning Gibbous Moon
b)
Waxing Gibbous Moon
c)
Waning Crescent Moon
d)
Waxing Crescent Moon
30.
What phase is this?
a)
First Quarter Moon
b)
Last Quarter Moon
c)
Waxing Gibbous Moon
d)
Waning Gibbous Moon
31.
What phase is this?
a)
Full Moon
b)
First Quarter Moon
c)
Last Quarter Moon
d)
New Moon
32.
Which way does the moon revolve?
a)
clockwise
b)
counter clockwise
c)
some times it changes direction
d)
it doesn't revolve
33.
The positive particles of an atom are
a)
electrons
b)
positrons
c)
neutrons
d)
protons
34.
How many protons does this atom have?
a)
2.5
b)
6
c)
5
d)
10.811
35.
What part of the atom is the arrow pointing to?
a)
nucleus
b)
proton
c)
electron shell
d)
electron
36.
The center of the atom is known as the
a)
core
b)
nucleus
c)
neutron
d)
shell
37.
The two subatomic particles found in the nucleus are
a)
protons and neutrons
b)
protons and electrons
c)
electrons and neutrons
d)
protons and nucleotrons
38.
The subatomic particle found outside the nucleus is the
a)
atom
b)
electron
c)
proton
d)
neutron
39.
Which is largest?
a)
star
b)
Nebula - because the other things are made from a nebula :)
c)
solar system
d)
Planets
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