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WorksheetsPlate Tectonics (Gizmo)
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 11mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which is NOT a type of plate boundary?
a)
Transform
b)
Divergent
c)
Convergent
d)
Insurgent
2.
Which type of plate boundary formed the current tallest mountain range on Earth?
a)
Convergent
b)
Divergent
c)
Transform
d)
Insurgent
3.
Pangea was broken apart at South America and Africa by which type of plate boundary?
a)
Divergent
b)
Convergent
c)
Transform
d)
Insurgent
4.
California earthquakes are caused by which type of plate boundary movement by the San Andreas Fault?
a)
Transform
b)
Convergent
c)
Divergent
d)
Insurgent
5.
The crust of Earth is a part of which layer?
a)
Lithosphere
b)
Asthenosphere
c)
Mantle
d)
Core
6.
Volcanoes form at "hot spots" and near which type of plate boundary?
a)
Transform
b)
Divergent
c)
Convergent: subduction
d)
Convergent: collision
7.
Which type of plate boundary creates new ocean floor?
a)
Divergent
b)
Convergent
c)
Transform
8.
The Pacific Ring of Fire is a circle of volcanoes all around the edge of the Pacific Ocean. These volcanoes are formed by ___ boundaries because the Pacific Ocean is slowing shrinking as the Atlantic Ocean is slowly growing.
a)
Convergent: subduction
b)
Convergent: collision
c)
Transform
d)
Divergent
9.
Japan experiences tsunamis, earthquakes and has volcanoes and deep sea trenches off its shore. Japan is surrounded by:
a)
Convergent: collision plate boundaries
b)
Convergent: subduction plate boundaries
10.
Plate tectonics is based on the mapping of volcanoes and earthquakes, rock layers, topographical features, magnetic patterns in ocean rock and fossil findings. This sounds like a scientific ___.
a)
hypothesis
b)
theory
11.
To clearly see the effects of plate tectonics on the shape and position of the continents, you would need to observe ___ of time.
a)
1 year
b)
10 years
c)
1000 years
d)
10 million years
12.
To see the effects of an earthquake, you would need to observe the surface of Earth for ___ of time.
a)
1 second
b)
10 minutes
c)
100 days
d)
1000 years
13.
The motion of plates or pieces of Earth's surface is driven by:
a)
heat from sunlight
b)
heat from the core of Earth
c)
the orbit of the Moon
14.
The same fossils in the same type of rock but are separated by 3000 miles of ocean is explained by a:
a)
convergent plate boundary
b)
divergent plate boundary
c)
transform plate boundary
d)
insurgent plate boundary
15.
Plates move via earthquakes. This occurs
a)
slowly, continuously, everyday, by fractions of a millimeter
b)
quickly, in an instant of movement, every 10 years or so for large movements of a meter or more
16.
Eventually, in maybe 100 million years, LA and Orange County will be located where San Francisco is today because of plate movement.
a)
True
b)
False
17.
Eventually, the Pacific Ocean will shrink and disappear and another Pangea will form.
a)
True
b)
False
18.
Plate and continent movements have no effect on the evolution, survival and extinction of life.
a)
True
b)
False
19.
What is the energy source of the water cycle, plate tectonics and the rock cycle?
a)
Sunlight, internal heat from the core, both
b)
Both, internal heat from the core, sunlight
c)
Internal heat from the core, both, sunlight
20.
The fitness of a population of species may change because the environment changes due to:
a)
Earth's orbit can change by increasing or decreasing its distance from the Sun by 10's of millions of miles
b)
plate boundary movement that changes the latitude of a continent or island group
c)
the Sun's intensity dims by half or doubles
d)
two answers are correct
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