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WorksheetsPlate Tectonic Review
Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 8mins
Where do most geologic activity occur?
Plates
Internal part of the plate
Plate Boundary
Plate Bounty
What movement is this?
Subduction
Divergent
Transform
Convergent
Once upon a time, there was a super continent called...
Panda
Super Earth
Pangaea
_______is the most upper region of the mantle that is directly below the lithosphere where the rocks are hot enough and under enough pressure to deform, flow, and reshape.
Lithosphere
Asthenosphere
Mantle
Crust
What does this plate boundary cause?
Earth folds
Mountains
Earth quakes
trenches
_____is the process where tectonic plates converge, press together to form mountains.
Convergent Plates
Mountain
Mountain Building
Mid Ocean Ridge
The tallest mountains on the planet, Himalayan Mountains, are formed at which plate boundary?
Transform
Mountain Building
Volcano
Converging Plates
Volcanoes form at which of the following plate boundaries?
Convergent and Subduction
Only Subduction
Subduction and Divergent
Divergent and Convergent
What movement is this?
Subduction
Convergent
Transform
Divergent
What does this plate movement cause?
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Mid ocean ridges
Valleys
What has to be different about two tectonic plates for a subduction zone to form?
One needs to be thinner
Both need to be continental plates
Different densities
Both need to be oceanic plates
The Earth recycles its crust. Which of the following statements are true and is the best elaboration of the previous statement?
The crust is immobile, but humans can reform it into what we need the land to be.
The crust can be destroyed and reformed at different plate boundaries.
he Earth's crust is moving and making geologic activity.
The Earth's water cycle shapes the crust.
If a scientist observes that there is a deep trench, which of the following is most likely true?
There is a fold near by
There is a mountain close by
There is a earthquake close by
There is a volcano close by
Which of the following is evidence to support the Theory of Continental Drift?
A fossil of a tropical flower in Antartica
Fossils of the same plant and animal spanning different continents
Rock patters spanning different continents
Jigsaw puzzle continents
All support
Is new crust created with this plate movement? Why or Why not?
Yes, because it is sea floor spread
No, because only above ground volcanoes do
Yes, because the plates are moving together
Yes, because the plates are subducting
What movement is this?
Transform
Divergent
Convergent
none of the above
The point beneath Earth's surface where rock breaks under stress and triggers an earthquake is call the ________________.
Epicenter
Fault
Focus
Fracture
Which of the following does not describe P waves.
Longitudinal
Faster
Go through all states of matter
Transverse
Primary Waves
Which of the following does not describe S waves
Secondary waves
Faster
Slower
Go only through solids
Transverse
An earthquake with a magnitude of 8 would be considered a severe earthquake?
True
False
An earthquake with a magnitude of 2 would be considered a strong earthquake.
True
False
What movement is this?
Subduction
Transform
Divergent
What happens at this boundary?
New crust is formed via earthquakes
New crust is formed via sea floor spreading
Crust is destroyed via volcanoes
None of these choices
What geologic activity and structures can occur at this plate boundary?
Mountains
Volcanoes and trenches
Volcanoes, trenches, and earthquakes
