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WorksheetsPlate Tectonics Part1+Stu Quest
Total questions: 74
Worksheet time: 37mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What drives tectonic plate movement?
a)
gravity
b)
coriolis effect
c)
convection currents
d)
the earth's magnetic core
2.
When an oceanic plate and a continental plate collide, which one will subduct?
a)
oceanic
b)
continental
c)
neither
d)
both
3.
The process by which the ocean floor sinks beneath a deep ocean trench and back into the mantle is known as
a)
convection
b)
continental drift
c)
subduction
d)
conduction
4.
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
5.
A boundary where two plates pull apart?
a)
convergent boundary
b)
divergent boundary
c)
transform boundary
d)
insurgent boundary
6.
What happens when an oceanic plate collides with a continental plate?
a)
the denser oceanic plate slides on top of the less dense continental plate
b)
the less dense oceanic plate slides under the denser continental plate
c)
the denser oceanic plate slides under the less dense continental plate
d)
the less dense oceanic plate slides past the denser continental plate
7.
Molten rock within Earth rises along mid-ocean ridges is called...
a)
plate tectonics
b)
slab pull
c)
seafloor spreading
d)
continental drift
8.
Name this plate boundary.
a)
divergent
b)
convergent
c)
transform
d)
allegiant
9.
_________ currents carry heat from the hot inner core to the cooler outer mantle and back again.
a)
River
b)
Radiation
c)
Convection
d)
Conduction
10.
The feature labeled C represents some of the deepest spots on the ocean floor. These areas are called ___.
a)
mid-ocean ridge
b)
trenches
c)
deep-sea vent
d)
abyssal plain
11.
The supercontinent that Wegener named.
a)
Hess
b)
Landmass
c)
Pangaea
d)
Challenge
12.
Scientists think that convection currents that move the plates flow in Earth's
a)
Continental crust
b)
oceanic crust
c)
Asthenosphere
d)
Lithosphere
13.
Two tectonic plates collide at a ___ plate boundary.
a)
convergent
b)
divergent
c)
transform
d)
transformer
14.
Which feature will most likely form at the location marked by an X?
a)
a desert
b)
a volcano
c)
a rift valley
d)
a transform fault
15.
Which feature would most likely be forming at converging continental tectonic plate boundaries?
a)
rift valley
b)
deep trench
c)
volcanic cone
d)
mountain range
16.
The Pacific Ring of Fire is where most of the earth's ____ are found.
a)
earthquakes
b)
volcanoes
c)
earthquakes and volcanoes
d)
trenches
17.
This begins at the mid-ocean ridge, new molten material from inside Earth rises, erupts, cools, and hardens to form a solid strip of rock.
a)
Ocean ridge
b)
Sea-floor spreading
c)
Magnetic strip
d)
Molten
18.
Andes mountains are examples of these type of boundary
a)
Transform
b)
Divergent
c)
Convergent
d)
Trenches
19.
The diagram below shows the collision of two tectonic plates in Asia. What is a result of this collision?
a)
Volcanoes erupt periodically.
b)
The Tibetan Plateau slowly sinks.
c)
The Himalayas increase in height each year.
d)
Glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau melt.
20.
How do aulacogens start?
a)
Mantle plumes
b)
Convergent plates
c)
Convection
d)
Magnetic forces
21.
What is more likely to happen after aulacogen forms?
a)
2 parts become oceans
b)
3 parts become oceans
c)
Not splitting further
d)
Coming together again
22.
What can aulacogens turn back into?
a)
Rift valleys
b)
Volcanoes
c)
Mountains
d)
Trenches
23.
What are aulacogens mean in Greek?
a)
Furrow
b)
Trench
c)
Valley
d)
Rift
24.
Who rejected the land bridges theory when considering Gondwanaland?
a)
Alfred Wegener
b)
Eduard Suess
c)
Alferd Welgener
d)
None of the above
25.
What happens when the water level between two continents goes down?
a)
It becomes an area that has a little amount of water
b)
Begins to create a new land bridge
c)
A and B
d)
None of these
26.
Who claimed that the fragments of Gondwanaland was connected by land bridges?
a)
Alfred Wegener
b)
Edward Suess
c)
Eduard Suess
d)
Alferd Welgener
27.
What does the root biotē mean and what word comes from the root biotē ?
a)
Environment, Biote
b)
Life, Biota
c)
Life, Boat
d)
Environment, Biota
28.
What is an orogenic belt?
a)
A belt that you wear
b)
Tectonic plates divergent
c)
The primary mechanism by which mountains are built on continents
d)
All of the above
29.
What is an orogenesis?
a)
Forces and events leading to a structural deformation of the Earth's lithosphere
b)
Organisms in your body
c)
Process of continental drifting
d)
None of the above
30.
How are orogenic belts developed?
a)
When volcanos develop in a belt formation
b)
When the ocean erode the continents
c)
None of the above
d)
When continental plates are crumpled and is pushed upwards
31.
Orogeny vs. Orogen means
a)
Event vs. The mountain belt
b)
Genesis vs. The result
c)
Process vs. The Result
d)
All the answers
32.
A large supercontinent that existed 225 million years ago was _________
a)
Pangaea
b)
Gondwanaland
c)
Laurasia
d)
Glossopteris
33.
When did the supercontinent Pangaea begin to break apart?
a)
about 10,000 years ago
b)
about 10 million years ago
c)
about 200 million years ago
d)
about 570 million years ago
34.
Plate tectonics theory suggests that the continents were once all combined into a supercontinent called (1) _______, with the southern part called (2) _______ and the northern part called (3) _______
a)
(1) Pangea, (2) Laurasia, (3) Gondwana
b)
(1) Pangea, (2) Gondwana, (3) Laurasia
c)
(1) Pangea, (2) Gondwana, (3) Eurasia
d)
(1) Gondwana, (2) Laurentia, (3) Pangea
35.
The supercontinent that broke apart to form Gondwana and Laurasia was called:
a)
Pangea
b)
Tethys
c)
Panthalassa
d)
Kattenhornia
36.
The process by which supercontinents form and break apart over millions of years is called:
a)
Subduction
b)
Rifting
c)
Continental Drift
d)
Supercontinent Cycle
37.
What are TERRANES?
a)
Accreted slabs of sediments from subducted plates
b)
A piece of earth that is big
c)
A piece of earth that is small
d)
A fracture in the earth’s surface
38.
How are TERRANES formed?
a)
Subduction
b)
Convection
c)
Transform
d)
Equal Arm Balance
39.
Where is the TERRANE located, at first stage?
a)
At a larger plate
b)
At a trench
c)
In the middle of the U.S.
d)
On the moon
40.
What is a single word definition of a TERRANE?
a)
Outlier
b)
Smile
c)
Range
d)
Belt
41.
Who Invented the Wilson Cycle?
a)
Alfred Wilson
b)
John Tuzo Wilson
c)
Alfred Wegener
d)
John Wegener
42.
How does the Basin form?
a)
Early Rifting
b)
Transform Boundary
c)
No magma plumes
d)
All of the above
43.
What is not included in the Wilson cycle?
a)
Transform Boundary
b)
Early Rifting
c)
The Asthenosphere
d)
All of the above
44.
What is a good example of a continent experiencing Early Rifting?
a)
Australia
b)
North America
c)
Europe
d)
Africa
45.
Along an oceanic ridge, upwelling of hot mantle rock creates ______________
a)
Earthquakes
b)
New continental crust
c)
A rift valley
d)
New seafloor
46.
What happens when two continental plates meet?
a)
It creates a plate boundary
b)
It creates new seafloor
c)
It creates a mountain range
d)
It creates a rift valley
47.
When two plates meet it produces a _______ boundary and when two plates move away from each other it is called a ________ boundary
a)
Convergent, divergent
b)
Transform, divergent
c)
Divergent, convergent
d)
Convergent, transform
48.
Two examples of trenches at convergent boundaries are:
a)
Atlantic, Tonga
b)
Tonga, Peru-Chile
c)
Fujiyama, Aleutian
d)
Mariana, Easter
49.
What is the main supercontinent?
a)
Pangea
b)
Laurasia
c)
Gondwana
d)
None of the above
50.
What are the plates in Laurasia?
a)
South American North American
b)
Eurasian and South American
c)
North American and Eurasian
d)
None of the above
51.
When was continental drift thought of?
a)
1912
b)
1902
c)
1924
d)
1907
52.
When was Gondwana formed?
a)
150 million years ago
b)
200 million years ago
c)
170 million years ago
d)
None of the above
53.
The theory that states that pieces of Earth's crust are in constant, slow motion driven by movement in the mantle is called...
a)
The theory of plate tectonics
b)
The theory of Pangea
c)
The theory of continental drift
d)
Theory of plate boundaries
54.
Oceanic crust is _______ than continental crust
a)
more dense
b)
hotter
c)
less dense
d)
colder
55.
A volcano will most likely occur at _______
a)
Transform Boundary
b)
Divergent Boundary
c)
Convergent Boundary
d)
Subduction
56.
The place where two plates collide is called a ______
a)
Transform Boundary
b)
Convergent Boundary
c)
Divergent Boundary
d)
Complex Boundary
57.
What is an Orogenic Belt?
a)
Something you wear
b)
When two plates separate
c)
When a plate goes underneath another plate
d)
When two continental plates collide to form a mountain
58.
What is a Terrane?
a)
A stretch of land
b)
Portions of continental crust which have rifted off
c)
Accreted fragment of another crust
d)
Something to do with a Orogenic Belt
59.
Example of Orogenic Belts
a)
Himalayas
b)
Appalachian Mountains
c)
Rocky Mountains
d)
All of the above
60.
What is a Transform Boundary ?
a)
A boundary which changes shape
b)
Boundary which moves over a long period of time.
c)
Boundary which two plates skim right past each other
d)
A boundary where transform faults collide
61.
How does a transform boundary happen?
a)
When two plates collide
b)
When two plates move away from each other
c)
when two plates slide past each other
d)
when two plates go the same way
62.
A ______ occurs when two tectonic plates slide past each other
a)
Convergent Boundary
b)
Divergent Boundary
c)
Mid-Sea Trench
d)
Transform boundary
63.
What is the first stage of the wilson cycle?
a)
Ocean developes
b)
Partial melting
c)
Injection of basalt magma
d)
Full ocean
64.
What is the effect of the wilson cycle?
a)
Ocean where the divergent boundary happened
b)
Earthquake
c)
There is a major volcano
d)
The earth falls in half
65.
Who found out about the wilson cycle?
a)
Alfred Wegener
b)
Jacob Tuzo
c)
John Wilson
d)
My Uncle Larry
66.
What month was John Wilson born?
a)
November
b)
October
c)
April
d)
August
67.
Which one is NOT a name for the land bridge connecting Sri Lanka and India?
a)
Rama's Bridge
b)
Adam's Bridge
c)
Ravan's Chhed
d)
Rama Setu
68.
At what type of plate boundary are land bridges made?
a)
Divergent
b)
Transform
c)
Convergent
d)
The Boundary of Memories
69.
What is the passage connecting the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean?
a)
The Bering Strait
b)
The Drake Passage
c)
Cape Horn
d)
The Argentine Canal
70.
What land bridge is connecting North and South America?
a)
Central American Land Bridge
b)
Legoland
c)
It's Part of Mexico. No name
d)
The Isthmus of Panama
71.
How can land-bridges affect oceanic Currents?
a)
By Blocking them out
b)
They can’t
c)
It affects only Biota
d)
They Only affect Climate
72.
Oceanic Gateways…
a)
Block out Oceanic Currents
b)
Open Land Bridges
c)
Open Biotic Migrations
d)
Cannot affect Climate
73.
The Land bridge between Alaska and Siberia was:
a)
The Bear Strait
b)
The Bering Strait
c)
Bering land bridge
d)
Bering Isthmus
74.
Biotic Migrations…
a)
Are affected by Land bridges and Oceanic Gateways
b)
Cause Oceanic Gateways and Landbridges
c)
Have nothing to do with land bridges and Oceanic Gateways
d)
Non of the above
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