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Amplify Plate Motion

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 4hrs 0mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What are Tectonic Plates?

a)

Pieces of Earth's Crust and uppermost mantle

b)
c)

hard rock

d)

something that you eat food on

2.

What is a Fossil?

a)

preserved remains of a Prehistoric Organism

b)

Bones

c)

Old bones

d)

remains

3.

What does it mean to Converge?

a)

To meet at a point

b)

To separate

c)

I dont know

d)

to meet and separate

4.

Connect the word

to the picture for Diverge

a)

Diverge

b)

Converge

c)
d)
5.

What does Mesosaurus mean?

a)

Middle Lizard

b)

I don't know

c)

a lizard dinosaur

d)

a dinosaur lizard

6.

What is a Cross Section?

a)

a diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like

b)

A section cut in two

c)

Something

d)

a section of a cross

7.

Fill in the blank: The outer layer is Earth's outermost layer of hard, solid ____

a)

Rock

b)

Clay

c)

Dirt

d)

Lava

8.

A Paleontologist is someone who studies ______, you must select the two right answers on this question.

a)

Fossils

b)

The past

c)

Paleos

d)

logists

9.

What does Geological mean?

a)

Relating to the study of the Earth's surface

b)

The Earth

c)

Relating to the Earth

d)

Describing the Earth

10.

What is a Core Sample?

a)

a sample of a naturally reoccurring substance

b)

A sample of the Earth's core

c)

a sample of a substance

d)

Life

11.

Plate Tectonics is the theory of what?

a)

A theory explaining the structure of the Earth's crust as resulting from the interaction of rigid lithospheric plates that move slowly over the underlying crust

b)

A theory explaining the structure of the Earth's crust as resulting from the interaction of rigid lithospheric plates that move slowly over the underlying atmosphere

c)

A theory explaining the structure of the Earth's crust as resulting from the interaction of rigid lithospheric plates that move slowly over the underlying exosphere

d)

A theory explaining the structure of the Earth's crust as resulting from the interaction of rigid lithospheric plates that move slowly over the underlying T-rex

12.

What does it mean to transform?

a)

To change form

b)

to form change

c)

to change from

d)

to from change

13.

What is orogeny?

a)

a process in which a section of the Earth's crust is folded and deformed by lateral compression to form a mountain range

b)

not here

c)

when the crust folds

d)

when a mountain range is formed

14.

What is subduction?

a)

a geological process that takes place at convergent boundaries

b)

when convergence occurs

c)

when divergence occurs

d)

i don't know

15.

What is Volcanism? there are two answers

a)

volcanic activity

b)

volcanic phenomena

c)

i dont know

d)

volcanos

16.

What is the mid-ocean ridge?

a)

an underwater mountain range

b)

an ocean in a ridge

c)

an ridge in an ocean

d)

i don't know