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WorksheetsTectonic Plates Summative Assessment
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 25mins
Look at the drawing shown. What likely happens when two continental plates collide?
An ocean trench forms.
Folded mountains form.
Sea-floor spreading occurs
Which of the following answers lists events that result from the motion of Tectonic Plates.
hurricanes and tropical depressions
earthquakes and mountain building
high tides and low tides
Why do volcanoes FORM where a plate carrying Oceanic Crust and a plate carrying Continental Crust MEET?
The continental crust gets pushed up and folded as the plates collide.
The continental crust breaks as it slides past the oceanic crust.
The oceanic crust moves beneath the continental crust, melts, and becomes magma.
San Andreas Fault formed at this type of boundary-
Transform Boundary
Convergent Boundary
Divergent Boundary
Hot Spot
This is the theory that states that all the continents started as a single massive continent and have been MOVING apart for over 200 million years and the man that proposed it.
The Big Bang Theory, Einstein
The Continental Drift Theory, Wegener
The Tectonic Plate Theory, Darwin
What is a tectonic plate?
A piece of the earths crust
A pie of the mantle
A piece of the core
A piece of the whole world
What is the name of the layer that contains the uppermost mantle and crust
Asthenosphere
Mesosphere
Lithosphere
