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Plate Tectonics

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

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1.

Name the area between the two diverging plates in this picture.

a)

transform boundary

b)

ocean trench

c)

rift valley

d)

subduction zone

2.

Identify natural land feature that are formed at a convergent boundary.

a)

Appalachian Mountains

b)

Africa’s Rift Valley

c)

San Madrid Fault

d)

Florida Keys

3.

Philippines is a volcanic island chain. Describes the location of the Philippines.

a)

subduction zone

b)

convergent boundary

c)

normal fault

d)

hot spot

4.

Plate boundaries behave in different ways, depending on the location and their motion. Identify the possible outcomes for a divergent boundary.

a)

rift valley and mid-ocean ridge

b)

deep ocean trenches and earthquakes

c)

mountain building and subduction

d)

volcanoes and seamounts

5.

The interactions at plate boundaries cause huge changes on both the land and the ocean floor. What are the mountains results from the type of plate boundary?

a)

divergent

b)

convergent

c)

transform

d)

strike-slip fault

6.

What events can produce an earthquake?

a)

the force of tsunamis in the oceans

b)

a sudden release of energy from the mantle

c)

movement of tectonic plates along a fault

d)

the violent shaking of sections of the lithosphere

7.

The movement of Earth’s plates causes changes in the Earth’s crust.The form of the mountain range, what type of plate boundary would most likely occur?

a)

convergent boundary with subduction

b)

convergent boundary without subduction

c)

divergent boundary

d)

transform boundary

8.

What is the most responsible for the recycling of crust when two plates meet?

a)

magma rising up from the mantle at a divergent boundary

b)

two tectonic plates sliding past one another at a transform boundary

c)

subduction of one oceanic plate under another at a convergent boundary

d)

formation of new crust when two continental plates at a convergent boundary

9.

What is the correct definition of a tectonic plate boundary?

a)

At a divergent boundary, plates separate.

b)

At a transform boundary, plates move apart.

c)

At a convergent boundary, plates slide past each other.

d)

At a divergent boundary, one plate sinks under another plate.

10.

The Himalaya Mountains formed when the Indian tectonic plate collided with the Eurasian plate. Describes this process?

a)

ridge push

b)

divergent boundary

c)

transform boundary

d)

convergent boundary

11.

The Atlantic Ocean formed as the South American Plate moved apart from the African Plate. Which type of boundary was involved in the formation of the Atlantic ocean?

a)

transform boundary

b)

divergent boundary

c)

stationary boundary

d)

convergent boundary

12.

What happens at a transform tectonic plate boundary?

a)

Two tectonic plates move horizontally past one another along Earth’s surface, forming long fault lines.

b)

Two tectonic plates pull away from one another, forming a rift or ridge.

c)

Two tectonic plates pull away from one another, decreasing rock deformation.

d)

Two tectonic plates collide with one another, causing subduction and/or mountain building.

13.

Identify the process that causes tectonic plates to move?

a)

Conduction in the inner core

b)

Convection in the inner core

c)

Convection in the mantle

d)

Conduction in the mantle

14.

Why the magma inside the Earth may start to rise?

a)

because the surrounding rock is cooler

b)

because the surrounding rock is less dense

c)

because the surrounding rock is more dense

d)

because the surrounding rock is more viscous

15.

What describes the pot of water on a hot stove of the convection cycles that heat up the water?

a)

warmer, more dense fluid rises and cooler, less dense fluid sinks

b)

warmer, more dense fluid sinks and cooler, less dense fluid rises

c)

warmer, less dense fluid rises and cooler, more dense fluid sinks

d)

warmer, less dense fluid sinks and cooler, more dense fluid rises

16.

What is the cause of sea-floor spreading?

a)

the development of deep water ocean trenches with magma that comes from Earth’s crust due to convection currents

b)

ocean floor sedimentation that develops over millions of years that adds sedimentary rock layers

c)

the flow of magma from the mantle through cracks in Earth’s crust that makes strips of new rock on both sides due to convection currents

d)

a plate of dense oceanic crust sinks below a less dense plate of continental crust to form an undersea valley

17.

Between mountain building, volcanoes, and earthquakes. What's there relationship?

a)

They mostly occur in the oceans and in the center of plates at land boundaries because of convection currents.

b)

They mostly occur at plate boundaries and are generated from eruptions that occur on land due to convection currents.

c)

They mostly occur in the oceans and change the sea floor by spreading apart to make new rock.

d)

They mostly occur at plate boundaries and are generated by plate motions from convection currents.

18.

What are the result of high temperatures in Earth’s mantle?

a)

earthquakes and volcanoes

b)

radioactive atoms in minerals

c)

ocean tides

d)

erosion and deposition

19.

What is a convection current?

a)

the transfer of energy by direct contact

b)

the transfer of energy by the movement of matter

c)

the transfer of energy through a solid, such as the Earth’s crust

d)

the transfer of energy from a region of lower temperature to a region of higher temperature

20.

Which set of arrows represents a convergent plate boundary?

a)

----> <----

b)

<---- ---->

c)

v^

d)

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