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Tectonic Plates and W.E.D vocabulary

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

what is a example of weathering

a)

a bus

b)

a skydiver

c)

a hammer

d)

a shoe

2.

What is a example of erosion

a)

a bus

b)

a airplane

c)

a skydiver

d)

I don´t know

3.

What is a example of deposition

a)

a computer

b)

a skydiver

c)

a shoe

d)

a egg

4.

What is a plate

a)

something you eat off of

b)

something that lives under the ground

c)

something that all the continents and ocean sit on

d)

a type of food

5.

What is lava

a)

hot water

b)

something that comes out of a volcano

c)

liquid magma that seeps out of an earthquake

d)

magma

6.

what is an example of magma

a)

When I went to Hawaii I saw magma.

b)

I saw magma.

7.

How does an earthquake happen ?

a)

The roads just move

b)

I don´t know

c)

when the plates diverge

8.

How does a volcano form ?

a)

It pops up out of the ground

b)

The plates converge

c)

The plates diverge

d)

The plates transform

9.

What is a sand dune ?

a)

a sand castle

b)

a slope in the sand

c)

a pot hole in the road

d)

A hill in the sand

10.

What is a delta ?

a)

A water faucet

b)

A airplane company

c)

Where sediments fall at the end of a river

d)

None of the above

11.

What is an example of a landform ?

a)

hill

b)

cliff

c)

delta

d)

mountain

12.

What are plate tectonics ?

a)

Plates buried under the ground

b)

Plates that move

c)

The idea of the sea floor spreading

d)

None of the above

13.

What is a transform boundary ?

a)

When the plates slide past each other

b)

When the plates crush each other

c)

When the plates move forward or towards each other

d)

When the plates move away from each other

14.

What is divergent boundary ?

a)

When the plates move past each other

b)

When the plates move slow

c)

When the plates move fast

d)

When the plates move away from each other

15.

What is a convergent boundary ?

a)

When the plates move fast

b)

When the plates move sideways

c)

When the plates move towards each other

d)

When the plates go crazy and move any where they want

16.

Did you like this quizzzz ?

a)

YES

b)

NO