NEW
Font size
S
M
L
XL
WorksheetsUnit 3 Review (Plate Tectonics)
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What happens at a plate boundary?
a)
Continents get smaller as a result of subduction.
b)
Sea floor spreading takes place at all boundaries.
c)
an oceanic plate becomes a continental plate
d)
two tectonic plates interact with each other
2.
Hot mantle material that rises is...
a)
less dense than the cooler mantle material
b)
more dense than the cooler mantle material
3.
An earthquake can occur at which boundary/boundaries?
a)
Transform
b)
Convergent
c)
Divergent
d)
All of the above
4.
What is the first layer of the Earth? (From the outside to the center)
a)
Outer Core
b)
Upper mantle
c)
Crust
d)
Lower mantle
5.
What is the second layer of the Earth? (From outside to inside)
a)
Crust
b)
Lower Mantle
c)
Upper Mantle
d)
Outer Core
6.
Which layer do the convection currents occur in?
a)
Crust
b)
Upper Mantle
c)
Outer Core
d)
Lower Mantle
7.
Folded mountains sometimes form at convergent plate boundaries. Why?
a)
Because convergent plate boundaries occur above hot spots
b)
Because rock is stretched apart and breaks
c)
Because subducted oceanic crust melts and rises
d)
Because rock is compressed and forced upward
8.
This is a type of stress that pulls and lengthens material.
a)
Tension stress
b)
Compression stress
c)
Shear stress
9.
This type of stress twists and grinds rock against other rock.
a)
Compression stress
b)
Tension stress
c)
Shear stress
10.
When two oceanic plates move apart in a divergent boundary it forms...
a)
Magnetic poles
b)
Mid-ocean ridges
c)
Ocean trenches
d)
subduction zones
11.
When two contiental plates move away from each other in divergent boundaries it creates...
a)
Rift Valleys
b)
Ocean Trenches
c)
Mid-Ocean Ridges
d)
Subduction Zones
12.
At a convergent boundary _______________ can form.
a)
Mountains
b)
Volcanoes
c)
Trenches
d)
All of the above
13.
At a transform boundary ______________ can occur.
a)
Earthquakes
b)
Trenches
c)
Mountains
14.
Alfred Wegener proposed his _____________ hypothesis.
a)
continental drift
b)
plate tectonics
15.
Alfred Wegener's evidence to support his continental drift hypothesis was...
a)
shapes of the continents
b)
rocks and fossils
c)
glaciers/climate
d)
all of the above
16.
This is the theory that states Earth's surface is made of giant moving slabs called tectonic plates.
a)
continental drift
b)
plate tectonics
c)
convergent boundaries
d)
divergent boundaries
17.
Single, large landmass (also known as super continent)
a)
Pandora
b)
Pretty Princess
c)
Patrick
d)
Pangaea
18.
Type of stress that squeezes and shortens materials
a)
compression stress
b)
tension stress
c)
shear stress
19.
Harry Hess helped support Wegener's idea of continental drift by discovering _______________ while aboard a U.S. Navy ship.
a)
Pangaea
b)
Convection currents
c)
sea-floor spreading
d)
Continental crust
20.
Which of the following is a source of heat in Earth's interior?
a)
earthquakes
b)
the sun
c)
seismic waves
d)
radioactive decay
Reset
