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WorksheetsPlate Tectonics
Total questions: 61
Worksheet time: 34mins
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Class
Date
1.
Who proposed the theory of continental drift?
a)
Charles Darwin
b)
Alfred Wegener
c)
Neil Armstrong
d)
Martin Drift
2.
Remains of the reptilian creature, Mesosaurus, found on West Africa and South America is which type of evidence supporting continental drift?
a)
climate
b)
rock formation
c)
shape
d)
fossil
3.
Mountains that extend from one continent to the adjacent continent is an example of what type of evidence supporting continental drift?
a)
shape
b)
fossil
c)
rock formations
d)
climate
4.
Rock evidence shows that Australia once had polar, arctic conditions. This is an example of what type of evidence supporting continental drift?
a)
climate
b)
rock
c)
fossil
d)
shape
5.
What type of boundary creates a volcanic arc?
a)
convergent ocean ocean
b)
convergent ocean continental
c)
convergent continental continental
d)
divergent
6.
What type of boundary creates an island arc?
a)
convergent ocean ocean
b)
convergent ocean continental
c)
convergent continental continental
d)
divergent
7.
What type of boundary creates new seafloor?
a)
convergent ocean ocean
b)
convergent ocean continental
c)
convergent continental continental
d)
divergent
8.
What type of boundary creates a mountain chain?
a)
convergent ocean ocean
b)
convergent ocean continental
c)
convergent continental continental
d)
divergent
9.
Which type of boundary is the San Andres Fault?
a)
convergent
b)
divergent
c)
transform
10.
Plates coming together would be
a)
convergent
b)
divergent
c)
transform
11.
Plates sliding would be
a)
convergent
b)
divergent
c)
transform
12.
Plates moving apart would be
a)
convergent
b)
divergent
c)
transform
13.
The Andes mountains and volcanoes are made by the South American Plate and Pacific Plate colliding, this is known as
a)
convergent ocean ocean
b)
transform
c)
convergent continental continental
d)
convergent ocean continental
14.
The Himalayan mountains are in the middle of a continent, what boundary creates them?
a)
transform
b)
convergent ocean continental
c)
convergent continental continental
d)
convergent ocean ocean
15.
Which has thicker crust
a)
ocean
b)
continental
16.
Which is subducted in an ocean-continental convergent boundary?
a)
ocean
b)
continental
17.
Which crust is more dense?
a)
ocean
b)
continental
18.
Where do volcanoes occur?
a)
divergent boundaries
b)
convergent boundaries
c)
ring of fire
d)
all of the above
19.
What is the ring of fire?
a)
A ring of volcanoes around the Atlantic Ocean
b)
A ring of volcanoes around the Indian Ocean
c)
A ring of Volcanoes around the Pacific Ocean
d)
A ring of volcanoes around the entire globe
20.
What is a hot spot?
a)
A place that gets hit the most by the sun's rays
b)
When a mantle plume rises and breaks through the crust
c)
Every place with a volcano
d)
A place with temperatures above 90 degrees F
21.
What do hot spots create?
a)
earthquakes
b)
tsunamis
c)
island chains
d)
seafloor
22.
Which of these layers is ALL solid iron and nickel?
a)
inner core
b)
outer core
c)
lithosphere
d)
mesosphere
23.
Which layer of Earth is located above the outer core?
a)
crust
b)
inner core
c)
mantle
d)
lithosphere
24.
The layer that makes up most of the earth's mass and volume is the
a)
crust
b)
mantle
c)
core
d)
asthenosphere
25.
Which of the following occurs because of convection currents?
a)
Tectonic plates on the crust move.
b)
The mantle increases in size.
c)
Pressure in the crust increases.
d)
Pressure in the crust decreases.
26.
Scientists think that convection currents that move the plates flow in Earth's
a)
Continental crust
b)
Oceanic crust
c)
Asthenosphere
d)
Lithosphere
27.
The mantle of Earth is made partly of magma. When magma rises and sinks, this is called ______________.
a)
a conduction current
b)
a hot spot
c)
a volcanic eruption
d)
a convection current
28.
What is Pangaea?
a)
The name of a German Scientist
b)
the name of the supercontinent that existed millions of years ago
c)
another name for continental drift
d)
the name of an ancient fossil
29.
A rift valley forms at a
a)
convergent plate boundary
b)
divergent plate boundary
c)
transform boundary
d)
deep ocean trench
30.
What is the primary cause of volcanoes and earthquakes?
a)
crustal plate movements
b)
Earth's gravitational force
c)
higher than usual tides
d)
solar magnetic storms
31.
Which type of plate boundaries occur at X?
a)
Divergent
b)
convergent
c)
transform
d)
subducting
32.
What feature occurs at Y?
a)
mid-ocean ridge
b)
deep ocean trench
c)
hot spot
d)
rift
33.
What is happening at Z?
a)
mid-ocean ridge
b)
subduction zone
c)
transform boundary
d)
sea floor spreading
34.
A collision between two pieces of continental crust at a converging boundary produces a
a)
mid ocean ridge
b)
deep ocean trench
c)
rift valley
d)
mountain range
35.
Transform boundaries are most likely to produce what phenomenon?
a)
volcanoes
b)
deep sea trenches
c)
underwater mountain ranges
d)
earthquakes
36.
What drives tectonic plate movement?
a)
gravity
b)
coriolis effect
c)
convection currents
d)
the earth's magnetic core
37.
Scientists recently found coal deposits in eastern Antarctica. This discovery provides evidence of-
a)
coastal erosion
b)
plate tectonics
c)
ocean currents
d)
global warming
38.
The youngest rocks on the seafloor are most likely found...
a)
closest to a mid-ocean ridge
b)
farthest from a mid-ocean ridge
c)
near the coastlines
d)
closest to a deep sea trench
39.
If you used the theory of plate tectonics to predict the most likely place for the next volcanic eruption, you should predict that it is most likely to occur...
a)
along boundaries between colliding lithospheric plates
b)
where one has not happened in at least 10 million years
c)
in the interior of any continent
d)
where a continental lithospheric plate is being subducted beneath an oceanic lithospheric plate
40.
What land form is created when an oceanic plate is subducted beneath a continental plate?
a)
mid-ocean ridge
b)
rift valley
c)
trench
d)
volcanic island arc
41.
What occurs when two plates come together and the denser one is forced under back into the mantle?
a)
reduction
b)
conduction
c)
subduction
d)
convection
42.
What forms when an oceanic and continental plate converge?
a)
island arcs
b)
folded mountains
c)
volcanic mountains
d)
rift valleys
43.
Large pieces of Earth's lithosphere that move around are called?
a)
sections
b)
plates
c)
land masses
d)
faults
44.
What forms when denser oceanic crust is pushed under less dense oceanic crust?
a)
mountains
b)
volcanic islands
c)
rift valleys
d)
mid-ocean ridges
45.
Name the three types of plate boundaries.
a)
convergent, divergent, transform
b)
convergent, divergent, transformers
c)
divergent, insurgent, allegient
d)
conduction, convection, radiation
46.
Earth's lithosphere is separated into several major tectonic plates. Which list contains only the names of major tectonic plates?
a)
Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, Southern
b)
lithosphere, asthenosphere, mesoshpere, mantle, crust
c)
North American, South American, Indo-Australian, Pacific, Eurasian
d)
Antarctic, Atlantic, India, China
47.
What type of boundary does this picture represent?
a)
divergent boundary
b)
convergent boundary
c)
transform boundary
48.
What type of boundary does this picture represent?
a)
divergent boundary
b)
convergent boundary
c)
transform boundary
49.
What type of boundary does this picture represent?
a)
divergent boundary
b)
convergent boundary
c)
transform boundary
50.
Which of the tectonic plates is composed mainly of oceanic lithosphere?
a)
Pacific Plate
b)
African Plate
c)
Eurasian Plate
d)
North American Plate
51.
What feature would you expect to find at the boundary between the Eurasian and North American Plates?
a)
mountains
b)
mid-ocean ridge
c)
tsunami
d)
rift valley
52.
A break in the Earth's surface along which rocks can move is called:
a)
rift valley
b)
mountain
c)
fault
d)
tsunami
53.
What takes place at a mid-ocean ridge?
a)
subduction
b)
sea-floor spreading
c)
rift valleys
54.
Which letter is the Pacific Plate?
a)
F
b)
A
c)
E
d)
D
55.
Which letter is the African Plate?
a)
B
b)
A
c)
E
d)
C
56.
Which letter is the Eurasian Plate?
a)
B
b)
A
c)
E
d)
C
57.
What Color line is the "ring of fire"?
a)
Red
b)
Green
c)
Blue
d)
Pink
58.
What letter is the Indo-Australian Plate?
a)
A
b)
B
c)
E
d)
F
59.
Which letter is the Antarctica Plate?
a)
B
b)
A
c)
E
d)
C
60.
Which letter is the South American Plate?
a)
B
b)
A
c)
E
d)
C
61.
Which letter is the North American Plate?
a)
B
b)
A
c)
E
d)
C
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