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Unit 9: Plate Tectonics

Total questions: 60

Worksheet time: 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Identify Plate 1

a)

African Plate

b)

Pacific Plate

c)

Indo-Australian Plate

d)

Juan de Fuca Plate

2.

Identify plate 2

a)

African

b)

Antartic

c)

Philippine

d)

South American

3.

Identify plate 4

a)

Eurasian

b)

African

c)

Indo-Australian

d)

Cocos

4.

Identify plate 3

a)

South American

b)

Scotia

c)

North American

d)

Caroline

5.

Identify plate 5

a)

South American

b)

Arabian

c)

Pacific

d)

African

6.

Identify plate 6

a)

Indo-Australian

b)

Juan de Fuca

c)

Caribbean

d)

Eurasian

7.

Identify plate 7

a)

Pacific

b)

North Ameriacn

c)

Antarctic

d)

Cocos

8.

Identify plate 8

a)

Scotia

b)

Arabian

c)

South American

d)

Juan de Fuca

9.

Identify plate 9

a)

Nazca

b)

Scotia

c)

Pacific

d)

Indo-Australian

10.

Identify plate 10

a)

Pacific

b)

Cocos

c)

ARabian

d)

Philippine

11.

Identify plate 11

a)

Cocos

b)

Eurasian

c)

Caribbean

d)

Caroline

12.

Identify plate 12

a)

Juan de Fuca

b)

Pacific

c)

Scotia

d)

Arabian

13.

Identify plate 13

a)

Antarctic

b)

African

c)

North American

d)

Arabian

14.

Identify plate 14

a)

Juan de Fuca

b)

Pacific

c)

Arabian

d)

Philippine

15.

Identify plate 15

a)

African

b)

Caroline

c)

Cocs

d)

North American

16.

The movement of matter due to differences in density; the transfer of energy due to the movement of matter

a)

plate tectonics

b)

convergent boundary

c)

convection

d)

divergent boundary

17.

The process by which new oceanic lithosphere (sea floor) forms when magma rises to Earth's surface at mid-ocean ridges a solidifies (hardens) as older, existing sea floor moves away from the ridge.

a)

sea-floor spreading

b)

transform boundary

c)

plate tectonics

d)

convection

18.

The Boundary between tectonic plates that are colliding.

a)

mid ocean ridges

b)

plate tectonics

c)

convergent boundary

d)

divergent boundary

19.

The theory that Earth's outer layer is made up of large moving pieces called tectonic plates; the theory explains how plates interact and how those interactions relate to processes such as earthquakes and mountain building.

a)

mid ocean ridges

b)

plate tectonics

c)

divergent boundary

d)

convection theory

20.

The boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally.

a)

divergent boundary

b)

convergent boundary

c)

transform boundary

d)

plate tectonics

21.

The boundary between tectonic plates that are moving away from each other.

a)

divergent boundary

b)

convergent boundary

c)

transform boundary

d)

plate tectonics

22.

This type of plate boundary is most often associate with earthquake

a)

transform

b)

divergent

c)

convergent

23.

The Great Rift Valley in Africa occurs on land at this plate boundary

a)

divergent boundary

b)

transform boundary

c)

convergent boundary

24.

Plates that divide apart from each other.

a)

transform boundary

b)

divergent boundary

c)

convergent boundary

25.

Plates that slide by each other.

a)

convergent boundary

b)

divergent boundary

c)

transform boundary

26.

Plates that collide together

a)

divergent boundary

b)

transform boundary

c)

convergent boundary

27.

The Himalayan mountains and Mt. Everest can be found at this plate boundary.

a)

convergent boundary

b)

divergent boundary

c)

transform boundary

28.
a)

convergent boundary

b)

divergent boundary

c)

transform boundary

29.
a)

convergent boundary

b)

divergent boundary

c)

transform boundary

30.
a)

convergent boundary

b)

divergent boundary

c)

transform boundary

31.

The San Andreas fault in California is on this type of plate boundary

a)

convergent boundary

b)

divergent boundary

c)

transform boundary

32.

Mid-ocean ridge and sea-floor spreading happen at this plate boundary

a)

convergent boundary

b)

transform boundary

c)

divergent boundary

33.

What is magma?

a)

hot fluid or semifluid material below or within the earth's crust from which lava and other igneous rock is formed on cooling.

b)

hot molten or semifluid rock erupted from a volcano or fissure, or solid rock resulting from cooling of this

c)

Something that is, ya know, like really big.

d)

Donald Trump's campaign slogan.

34.

A type of volcano with broad, gentle slopes and built by the eruption of fluid basalt lava.

a)

shield

b)

tsunami

c)

Columbia

d)

fissure

35.

Molten rock that erupts form volcanos

a)

hot rock

b)

lava

c)

fraggle rock

d)

magma

36.

A volcano that will not erupt again

a)

dormant

b)

active

c)

extinct

d)

St. Helens

37.

A volcano that is erupting or has erupted recently.

a)

dormant

b)

extinct

c)

active

d)

intermittent

38.

A vent at the earth's surface through which magma and gases erupt

a)

volcano

b)

black hole

c)

head

d)

mouth

39.

In 1980, this Washington State mountain gave North America its largest volcanic eruption

a)

Mt. St. Helens

b)

Columbia

c)

Mt. McSplody

d)

Dragon's Breath Rock

40.

The zone of earthquakes and volcanoes surrounding the Pacific Ocean.

a)

Three Ring Circus

b)

Ring of Fire

c)

Devil's Rim

d)

Round House of Horror

41.

Mountains formed from the build-up of volcanic lava often take this shape.

a)

balloon

b)

chunk deuce

c)

cone

d)

bubbles

42.

An opening or crack int he earth's surface through which lava flows

a)

lava split

b)

trench

c)

fissure

43.

The 1883 volcanic eruption in southeast Asia that killed 36,000 people

a)

Krakatoa

b)

Katrina

c)

Pangea

d)

Wegener

44.

German Scientists that first theorized about the past existence of a super continent called Pangea.

a)

Alfred Wegener

b)

Alfred Hitchcock

c)

Albert Einstein

d)

August Oppenheimer

45.

The earth's crust is cracked much like an egg, these pieces are called plates. There are believed to be how many tectonic plates?

a)

612

b)

52

c)

5

d)

4,141

46.

Large ocean eave created by undersea earthquakes or volcanic eruptions

a)

algiers

b)

tsi tsi

c)

tsunami

d)

hawewe ("wave" in hawaiian)

47.

A volcano that has not erupted recently, but may do so in the future

a)

dominant

b)

doomed

c)

dormant

d)

distant

48.

The eruption of Nevado del Ruiz with its devastating mud slides occurred in this South American nation in 1985

a)

Columbia

b)

France

c)

South Carolina

d)

Oklahoma

49.

Molten rock that is found beneath the earth's surface

a)

magma

b)

lava

c)

Elton John

d)

crushed dreams

50.
a)

intermittent

b)

dormant

c)

active

d)

extinct

51.
a)

active

b)

intermittent

c)

dormant

d)

extinct

52.
a)

extinct

b)

dormant

c)

intermittent

d)

active

53.
a)

composite

b)

cinder

c)

shield

54.
a)

composite

b)

cinder

c)

shield

55.

What type of volcano is this?

a)

active

b)

intermittent

c)

dormant

d)

extinct

56.

Identify part 52

a)

gases

b)

crater

c)

lava

d)

vents

57.

Identify part 53

a)

gases

b)

crater

c)

lava

d)

vents

58.

Identify part 54

a)

gases

b)

crater

c)

lava

d)

vents

59.

Identify part 55

a)

gases

b)

crater

c)

lava

d)

vents

60.
a)

composite

b)

cinder

c)

shield