WorksheetsPlate Tectonics
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 20mins
Location where two plates meet.
Pangaea
Divergent Boundary
Plate Boundary
Rift Zone
The transfer of heat by movement of a fluid
Conduction
Convection
Radiation
EM Waves
Name for the single landmass that started breaking apart ~200 mya
Pangea
Gondwanna
Eurasia
Pangaea
What is the plate boundary shown above?
Convergent Boundary
Transform Boundary
Divergent Boundary
Subduction
The belief that pieces of Earth's lithosphere are in constant motion.
The Continental Drift Hypothesis
The Theory of Plate Tectonics
The Theory of Seafloor Spreading
The Theory of Continental Drift
What type of plate boundary is shown in the image above?
Divergent Boundary
Convergent Boundary
Subduction Zone
Transform Boundary
Why was Wegener's Hypothesis rejected?
He did not have enough evidence
Many other scientists believed that the continents were stationary
He did not have a mechanism or way to explain how the continents shifted
Many people still believed the world was flat at this time
What is the predominant composition of the ocean floor?
Basalt
Granite
Obsidian
Sand
Divergent boundaries experience what type of force?
Shearing
Compression
Tension
Brittle
Who is the scientist who discovered Seafloor Spreading?
Alfred Wegener
Harry Hess
Nikola Tesla
Alexander Fleming
The Mariana Trench is an example of what type of plate boundary?
Divergent
Convergent - Continent to Continent
Transform
Convergent - Continent to Ocean
What is the type of force associated with a transform boundary?
Compression
Shearing
Tension
Brittle Deformation
What determines whether or not a plate will subduct at a convergent boundary?
The amount of convection occurring at the location
The density of the plate (rock type associated)
The size of the plate
The force of the plate
What tool was used to study the depth of the ocean floor?
Radar
Submarines
Sonar
Magnetometer
What is the name of the underwater mountain range that stretches down the middle of the Atlantic Ocean?
Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Rift
Mid-Atlantic Subduction Zone
Abyssal Plain
What is a subduction zone?
Where one plate goes under another
Where one plate pulls away from another
Two plates slide past each other
Location where a volcano is erupting
What type of force is associated with a convergent boundary?
Tension
Compression
Shearing
Friction
Which of the following is not a piece of evidence for seafloor spreading?
Magnetic Signatures in Rocks
Lava cooling rapidly into pillow basalts
Fossils found on different continents
Radiometric Age Dating of Rocks
Which of the following is not one of the three types of plate boundaries?
Subduction Boundary
Convergent Boundary
Divergent Boundary
Transform Boundary
What feature is associated with transform plate boundaries?
Rift Zone
Deep Ocean Trench
Earthquakes
Volcano
What type of boundary is pictured above?
Transform
Divergent
Convergent
Rift
Which of the following is not a piece of evidence for Continental Drift?
Fossils
Land features
Magnetic Signatures
Climate
Who was the scientist who developed the theory of continental drift?
Alfred Hess
Harry Wegener
Alfred Wegener
Harry Hess
What type of crust is thinner and more dense?
Ocean Crust
Continental Crust
Continental Crust is predominately made of what type of rock?
Basalt
Diorite
Granite
Obsidian
The Great Rift Valley is an example of what type of plate boundary?
Divergent
Convergent - Continent - Continent
Convergent - Continent - Ocean
Transform
The San Andreas Fault is an example of what type of plate boundary?
Convergent
Subduction
Divergent
Transform
Which of the following is not an example of a divergent boundary?
Alpine Fault
Red Sea Rift
Mid-Atlantic Ridge
East African Rift
What feature forms when an continental plate pushes into another continental plate?
Rift Zone
Deep Ocean Trench
Mountains
Rift Valley
What feature forms when a continental plate pushes into an oceanic plate?
Mountains
Deep Ocean Trench
Rift Zone
Earthquakes
Where would you find older rocks, A or B?
Location A
Location B
According to the Map, which direction is Australia moving?
West
East
North
South
What forms as lava cools in the ocean?
Granite
Sandstone
Limestone
Basalt
What happens to the density of rock as it cools?
Rock becomes less dense
Rock becomes more dense
Rocks density doesn't change
Where is the seafloor sediment thickest?
Close to the mid-ocean ridge
Close to the divergent boundary
Far away from the mid-ocean ridge
What is the feature called where seafloor sediment is the thickest?
Rift Valley
Deep Ocean Trench
Abyssal Plains
Mid-Ocean Ridge
What forms when Earth's magnetic field changes direction?
Crystal Size
Magnetic Stripes
Density of the rock changes
Thickness of the rock changes
What piece of evidence is not used to confirm that younger rocks are formed at the mid-ocean ridge?
Magnetic Stripes
Radiometric Age Dating
Shape of the continents
Pillow Lava
Which of the following is not an example of a convergent boundary (continent - ocean)
The Cascade Mountain Range
Himalayan Mountain Range
The Andes Mountain Range
Juan de Fuca
When a magnetic field causes a magnet to point north, the magnetic field has...
Reversed Polarity
Normal Polarity
Pole Shift
