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seafloor spreading

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

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1.

seafloor spreading is occuring at the boundary between

a)

Nazca Plate and South American Plate

b)

Australian Plate and the Eurasian Plate

c)

North American Plate and the Eurasion Plate.

d)

China Plate and the Philippine Plate

2.

What type of boundary does Seafloor Spreading occur?

a)

Convergent

b)

Subduction

c)

Collision

d)

Divergent

3.

One of the longest mountain chains on the planet earth is found between North America and Eurasia. This mountain chain is called the

a)

Rockies

b)

Mid Atlantic Ridge

c)

Ozark Mountains

d)

Pacific Rim

4.

This feature is where the plates rip apart and magma rises to form new crust.

a)

Mid-Ocean Ridges

b)

Trench

c)

Rift Valley

d)

Subduction Zone.

5.

The material that is rising up from the mantle to form new ocean crust is called?

a)

Lava

b)

Slate

c)

Sedimentary Rocks

d)

Magma

6.

If new ocean crust is found around the rift valley, where do you find the olest crust?

a)

Mid Ocean Ridges

b)

Trech at a Subduction Zone

c)

Rift Valley

d)

Magma recycle center

7.

What is the classification of the rock being formed at a rift valley?

a)

Sedimentary

b)

Metamorphic

c)

Foliated

d)

Ingenous

8.

The rocks on the ocean floor show evidence that the magnetism alternates North and South as you move along the sea-floor. This evidence of sea-floor spreading is reflected in the rocks on the ocean floor. The name for this evidence is called?

a)

Crustal subtraction

b)

Magnetic Reversals

c)

plate motion

d)

magnetic soldification

9.

Youngest oceanic crust is found at the Mid-Ocean Ridge. Age gets progressively older as you get farther from the mid-ocean ridge. Why is the Earth not expanding in size?

a)

The older ocean crust is weathered and eroded away

b)

deposition of the older crust decreases the mass of earth

c)

The older crust is being recycled at subduction zones.

d)

The mid ocean ridge is becoming so large that it is consuming the older the crust.

10.

The boundary where you would find a rift valley is called ?

a)

Convergent

b)

Convergent Collision

c)

Divergent

d)

Subduction

11.

The ocean floor was first mapped out using a device called?

a)

sonar

b)

GPS

c)

Naval mapping

d)

Marine topographic mapping

12.

Divergent Boundaries are where two plates are moving in the opposite directions. Rising magma is pushing apart and adding new crust. This is also know as ?

a)

compaction

b)

Rifting

c)

deposition

d)

convergent

13.

Features of a Divergent Boundary are Mid-Ocean ridges, Rift Valley and ?

a)

Earthquakes

b)

San Andreas Fault

c)

Lithosphere

d)

Fissure Volcanos

14.

The ocean floor is made up of what kind of Igneous rock?

a)

Granite

b)

Basalt

c)

Sulfur

d)

Calcite

15.

At mid-ocean ridges, molten material (magma) rises from the mantle and erupts as fissure volcanoes. The molten material then spreads out, pusing older rock to both sides of the ridges. This process is called?

a)

sink holes

b)

Divergent subduction

c)

Subduction zones

d)

Sea-Floor spreading