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WorksheetsPlate Tectonics
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
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Class
Date
1.
Ridge Push results in a convergent plate boundary.
a)
True
b)
False
2.
Coal beds in Antartica indivated to Wegener that this continent was
a)
always cold
b)
inhabited by penguins
c)
once located closer to the equator
d)
once beneath the ocean
3.
Based on observations of fossils of Glossopteris, Wegener concluded that....
a)
magnetic reversals had occurred in Earth’s past.
b)
continental rocks containing these fossils had once been joined.
c)
Earth’s continents were never joined.
d)
Glossopteris grew only in the tropics.
4.
Subduction results in the formation of....
a)
a deep-sea trench
b)
a magnetic reversal
c)
a rift valley
d)
new continental crust
5.
Many early mapmakers thought Earth’s continents had moved based on
a)
plate boundary locations
b)
fossil evidence
c)
climatic data
d)
matching coastlines
6.
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is an example of a
a)
divergent boundary
b)
convergent boundary
c)
subduction zone
d)
transform boundary
7.
What can happen when two oceanic plates converge and one is subducted into the mantle?
a)
Melted magma erupts and forms an arc of islands.
b)
The colliding plate edges become crumpled to form a mountain range.
c)
The lithosphere splits to create a divergent plate boundary on land.
d)
continent splits to form a new ocean basin
8.
Tectonic plates interact at places called plate
a)
reversals
b)
boundaries
c)
regions
d)
subduction
9.
Compared to ocean crust near trenches, the ocean crust near ocean ridges are
a)
younger
b)
older
c)
same age
d)
magnetically reversed
10.
Crust is neither formed or destroyed along which of the following boundaries
a)
convergent
b)
divergent
c)
transform
d)
magnetic
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