WorksheetsGeology Ultimate Quiz - Summative Assessment
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 7mins
What is the longest mountain range on the surface of the Earth, in both continental and oceanic crust?
Andes Mountains
Himalaya
Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Great Dividing Range
What kind of plate boundary creates new crust?
Destructive plate boundary
Constructive plate boundary
Transform plate boundary
Convergent plate boundary
Which of the following is an example of a trench?
Aleutian
Andes
Australia
Alps
What is the primary composition of oceanic crust which make it denser than continental crust?
silica-aluminum
silica-magnesium
iron-nickel
solid iron-magnesium
What geologic feature forms when two continental plates converge?
Submerged mountains
Trench
Earthquake
Mountain range
How do you call the extensive elevated plain which forms due to convergence of continental crust?
mid-ocean ridge
seamount
plateau
mountain
What country lies along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge?
Greenland
Iceland
Zealandia
Japan
Japan is known for its active volcanoes, frequent occurrences of earthquakes and devastating tsunami. Which of the following is the most probable reason for this?
Japan has its own active tectonic plate.
Japan lies on the most inactive plate.
Japan is an archipelago.
Japan is along the Pacific Ring of Fire.
Select the three different major features of the Earth found on its surface.
Islands
Volcanoes
Ocean basins
Continents
What is the name of the plate, shown in color red, in the picture above?
Caribbean plate
Juan de Fuca plate
Nazca plate
Othotsk plate
What continental plate interacts with Nazca plate in the picture above?
North American Plate
Pacific Plate
Cocos PLate
South American Plate
San Andreas Fault is popularly known -
for its trench.
as a transform fault.
being an active convergent plate boundary.
for its divergent boundary.
Choose the two plates that created the San Andreas Fault and are causing its activities.
Indo-Australian Plate
Juan de Fuca Plate
Pacific Plate
North American Plate
When two oceanic crusts converge, they produce -
mountain range
mid-ocean ridge
island arc
plateau
Hawaii, a group of popular American islands, has several islands which are now considered extinct volcanic island. Why is that so?
They have exhausted their magma supplies.
They are no longer found above a hotspot.
They have always been extinct.
They could not produce their own magma.
The Great Valley in East Africa resulted from what kind of plate boundary?
divergent plate boundary
convergent plate boundary
transform boundary
plate -boundary zone
Which of the following pictures shows a volcanic island?
Which of the following is the fastest moving and the largest tectonic plate?
Arabian Plate
Pacific Plate
African Plate
Indo-Australian Plate
Choose the pairs of tectonic plates which have divergent plate boundaries.
North American plate and Eurasian plate
Pacific plate and Nazca plate
South American plate and Africa plate
Pacific plate and Philippine plate
What mountain separates the European Russia and the Asian Russia (both are politically and economically different)?
Alps
Ural
Appalachian
Great Dividing Range
Trenches are produced by what kind of plate boundary? Choose two from the choices.
Oceanic - Oceanic convergent plate boundary
Continental - Continental convergent plate boundary
Oceanic - Continental convergent plate boundary
Oceanic - Oceanic divergent plate boundary
Which of the following plates is the smallest?
Nazca Plate
Scotia Plate
Antarctic Plate
Australia plate
Study the map of showing oceanic crustal age of earth. Blue is the oldest, red is the youngest. Which of the following statements is correct based on the information provided by the map?
The area of the Mid-Atlantic ridge has more active sites of crustal formation than Pacific plate.
The area around Pacific and Philippine plate has the youngest crust.
The area between Pacific plate and Nazca is geologically active in crustal formation.
Crustal formation happens as well on continents like South America and Africa.
Which of the following is not shown by the geologic map above?
Distribution of volcanoes and earthquakes
Movement of some major plates
Types of Plate Boundaries
Continents and Oceans
What is being represented by the purple dots all over the geologic map above?
oceanic ridges
earthquake epicenters
oceanic trenches
continental margin volcanoes
