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Plate Tectonics

Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Thinking about convection, what happens to cold air, water, or magma?

a)

Falls

b)

Rises

c)

Doesn't Move

2.

What type of plates collide?

a)

Divergent

b)

Convergent

c)

Transform

3.

Where does the internal energy that drives convection come from?

a)

The sun

b)

The oven

c)

The core

d)

The fire

4.

What types of plates divide?

a)

Divergent

b)

Convergent

c)

Transform

5.

Thinking about convection, what happens to warm air, water, or magma?

a)

Falls

b)

Rises

c)

Doesn't move

6.

What type of plates slide?

a)

Divergent

b)

Convergent

c)

Transform

7.

What is convection?

a)

Warm falls and cold rises

b)

Warm and cold don't move

c)

Warm rises and cold falls

8.

What do you call something that continues, has a pattern, goes in a circle, has no beginning or end?

a)

Circle

b)

Loop

c)

Ring

d)

Cycle

9.

What causes plate motion?

a)

Correction

b)

Convection

c)

Connection

d)

Convention

10.

What are the three types of plate boundaries?

a)

connection, divergent, transform

b)

convergent, dividing, transform

c)

convergent, divergent, transform

d)

convergent, divergent, transfer

11.

Do cycles have a starting or ending point?

a)

no

b)

yes

12.

How do transform plates move?

a)

Collide

b)

Divide

c)

Slide

13.

What do convergent plates cause?

a)

Earthquakes

b)

Mountains, Volcanoes, Deep Ocean Trenches

c)

Mid-Ocean Ridges, Rift Valleys, Volcanic Activity

d)

Nothing

14.

How do divergent plates move?

a)

Collide

b)

Divide

c)

Slide

15.

What do divergent plates cause?

a)

Earthquakes

b)

Mountains, Volcanoes, Deep Ocean Trenches

c)

Mid-Ocean Ridges, Rift Valleys, Volcanic Activity

16.

How do convergent plate moves?

a)

Collide

b)

Divide

c)

Slide

17.

What do transform plates cause?

a)

Earthquakes

b)

Mountains, Volcanoes, Deep Ocean Trenches

c)

Mid-Ocean Ridges, Rift Valleys, Volcanic Activity

18.

Who first explained the theory of Continental Drift?

a)

Alfred Wegener

b)

Harry Hess

c)

Tuzo Wilson

19.

Who first explained the theory of Plate Tectonics?

a)

Alfred Wegener

b)

Harry Hess

c)

Tuzo Wilson

20.

Who first explained the theory of Sea-Floor Spreading?

a)

Alfred Wegener

b)

Harry Hess

c)

Tuzo Wilson

21.

What was the name of the super-continent?

a)

Panama

b)

Pangea

c)

Pancakes

22.

Which type of crust has less density?

a)

Continental Crust

b)

Oceanic Crust

23.

Which type of crust has more density?

a)

Continental Crust

b)

Oceanic Crust