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WorksheetsPlate Tectonics
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
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Class
Date
1.
Which answer is not an evidence of Continental Drift?
a)
Convection currents
b)
Similar Geological features
c)
Correlation of fossils
d)
Similar rocks and minerals
2.
What interior layer of earth contains convection currents?
a)
Inner core
b)
Mantle
c)
Asthenosphere
d)
Lithosphere
3.
What term means to move apart or away
a)
Transform
b)
subduction
c)
convergent
d)
divergent
4.
What plate boundary is associated with sea-floor spreading, ridges and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge?
a)
convergent
b)
Shearing
c)
divergent
d)
transform
5.
What kind of boundary is the San Andrea Fault?
a)
Divergent
b)
Convergent
c)
Subduction Zone
d)
Transform
6.
What plate tectonic boundary formed the Himalayan Mountains in India?
a)
Transform
b)
Divergent
c)
Convection currents
d)
Convergent
7.
What term is not associated with convergent?
a)
Mountains
b)
Trench
c)
Volcano
d)
ridges
8.
What is an United States example of a transform boundary?
a)
Cascade Mountains
b)
Andes Mountains
c)
San Andrea Fault
d)
Iceland Hot Spot
9.
What do all Earthquakes have in common?
a)
They create volcanoes
b)
They are on plate boundaries
c)
They cause destruction
d)
They create mountains
10.
Where is the youngest rocks formed on a ridge?
a)
Near Continents
b)
West of ridge
c)
East of ridge
d)
In the Middle
11.
Pick the two terms that go together
a)
Convergent-ridge
b)
Transform-volcanoes
c)
convergent-trench
d)
Divergent-mountains
12.
What happens when ash volcanoes erupt ?
a)
Lava destroys plants and animals
b)
decreases the amount of insolation that reaches the Earth's surface
c)
Increases the amount of insolation that reaches the Earth's surface
d)
Burns everything in it's path
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