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WorksheetsPlate Tectonics CCA Review
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 15mins
The San Andreas fault is a transform fault. Which map best predicts the likely movement of land along the fault line over thousands of years?
Which student correctly identified the geologic process that formed the Himalayan mountains?
Student 1
Student 2
Student 3
Student 4
The most recently formed crust on Earth would be found where –
plates are moving sideways past each other.
one plate is sliding under another plate.
two plates are pushing directly towards each other.
two plates are moving apart from each other.
The thick black lines on the map below show the locations of mid-ocean ridges. Which geologic feature is most likely to form at a mid-ocean ridge?
Peninsula
Volcano
Delta
Plateau
How is a convergent boundary different from a divergent boundary?
Convergent boundaries pull apart to form mountains. Divergent boundaries collide to causing sea floor spreading
Convergent boundaries collide form mountains, trenches, or volcanoes. Divergent boundaries pull apart causing sea floor spreading.
Both boundaries pull apart causing seafloor spreading
Convergent boundaries come together causing sea floor spreading. Divergent boundaries separate forming volcanoes and mountains
The sliding motion between the Pacific plate and the North American plate creates the San Andreas Fault in California. The type of motion that is occurring between these plates is called a ____________ boundary and can produce _____________.
Divergent/Ocean Basins
Divergent/Mountains
Transform/Earthquakes
Transform/Ocean Basins
What happens when the tectonic plates move as shown in the model and form a subduction zone?
An ocean forms.
Volcanic mountain ranges form.
Sea-floor spreading occurs as the oceanic plate moves.
A transform boundary forms where the subduction occurs.
At which type of boundary illustrated below is a trench most likely to form?
At which type of boundary illustrated below is a mid-ocean ridge most likely to form?
At which type of boundary illustrated below is an earthquake most likely to form?
One piece of evidence that supports the Theory of Plate Tectonics is the discovery of what in both South America and Africa?
The ancient atmosphere in both places was identical.
The rates of weathering of rock are similar.
Fossil remains of the same land-dwelling animal.
Plants on both continents have similar flowers.
Even before modern observations provided evidence that supports the Theory of Plate Tectonics, people developed theories that the continents were once joined together. Using only maps, they observed that –
most of the larger land masses are in the Northern Hemisphere.
continents with the most moderate climates were located near the Equator.
the shapes of continents appeared to allow them to fit together.
the oceans have decreased in size throughout the history of Earth.
