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Amplify Plate Motion

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a paleontologist?

a)

A scientist who studies rocks

b)

A scientist who studies fossils

c)

A person who studies humans

d)

A person who likes to preserve dead things

2.

What is a fossil?

a)

A dead animal that decayed

b)

Dead animal bones

c)

Something that was once alive but now is a ghost

d)

The remains of a dead organism preserved in something like a rock

3.

What are pieces of the Earth's lithosphere?

a)

Tectonlic Plates

b)

Tectonic Piates

c)

Tectonic Plates

d)

Tectonc Plates

4.

What does geological mean?

a)

Relating to the study of the surface of Earth

b)

Relating to the study of Earth's mountains

c)

Relating to the study of Mars

d)

Relating to the study of the surface of Eartn

5.

A diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like is..?

a)

a cross diagonal

b)

a cross section

c)

a cross examination

d)

a core sample

6.

What is a core sample?

a)

A diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like

b)

cylindrical section of a substance that is obtained by drilling into it

c)

cylindrical section of an instance that is obtained by driIIing into it

d)

A picture of a layered rocks and sediments

7.

What is a small, extinct reptile from Southern Africa and South America called?

a)

masosaurus

b)

Mesosaurous

c)

mesosaurus

d)

masosarus

8.

What does convergent mean?

a)

To pull apart

b)

To go under one another

c)

To form mountains

d)

To collide and come together

9.

When two plates pull apart and move away from each other is called?

a)

divergent

b)

trivergent

c)

convergent

d)

disurgent

10.

What is transforming?

a)

Sliding away from each other

b)

Sliding past each other angrily

c)

Sliding past each other sideways

d)

Slipping downwards from each other

11.

"When a continental plate crumbles and creates a mountain"- what is this called?

a)

Orogeni

b)

Origin

c)

Orogemy

d)

Orogeny

12.

What is subduction?

a)

Sideways and downward motion of Earth's plates

b)

Sideways and upwards motion of Earth's plates

c)

When a mountain forms

d)

When two plates collide forcefully

13.

What is volcanism?

a)

Being a volcano

b)

Volcanic activity or phenomena

c)

Liking volcanoes

d)

Volcano activists

14.

An underwater mountain range formed by plate tectonics is what?

a)

A volcano

b)

Mid-Ocean fridge

c)

Mid-Land ridge

d)

Mid-Ocean ridge

15.

A boundary is..?

a)

The outer areas of a tectonic plate in the Earth's crust

b)

Something put between another object

c)

Something you can't go past

d)

The inner areas of tectonic plates

16.

A geological plate where most of the crust is land is what?

a)

Continueal plate

b)

Continemtal plate

c)

Continental plate

d)

Continental Piate

17.

What is an oceanic plate?

a)

A plate used to hold water

b)

Under the sea (under the sea)

c)

A tectonic plate close to the ocean

d)

A tectonic plate on the bottom of the ocean