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Plate Tectonics Shapes the Earth Concept Review

Total questions: 24

Worksheet time: 48mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

This is a model of a process inside the Earth That moves the lithospheric plates?

a)

Conduction

b)

Asthenosphere Convection

c)

Convection

d)

Outer Core Convection

2.

Two lithospheric plates colliding with each other describes which boundary?

a)

Divergent Plate Boundary

b)

Convergent Plate Boundary

c)

Transform Plate Boundary

d)

Intraplate Activity

3.

Two lithospheric plates moving away from each other describes which boundary?

a)

Divergent Plate Boundary

b)

Convergent Plate Boundary

c)

Transform Plate Boundary

d)

Intraplate Activity

4.

Two lithospheric plates sliding past each other describes which boundary?

a)

Divergent Plate Boundary

b)

Convergent Plate Boundary

c)

Transform Plate Boundary

d)

Intraplate Activity

5.

What geographic feature is produced at a continental - continental divergent plate boundary

a)

Folded Mountains

b)

Rift Valley

c)

Deep Sea Trench

d)

Mid Ocean Ridge

e)

Continental Arc Volcanoes

6.

What geographic feature is produced at a continental - continental convergent plate boundary

a)

Folded Mountains

b)

Rift Valley

c)

Deep Sea Trench

d)

Mid Ocean Ridge

e)

Continental Arc Volcanoes

7.

What geographic feature is produced at any convergent plate boundary that involves subduction of oceanic lithosphere?

a)

Folded Mountains

b)

Rift Valley

c)

Deep Sea Trench

d)

Mid Ocean Ridge

e)

Continental Arc Volcanoes

8.

What geographic feature is produced at a oceanic - oceanic divergent plate boundary

a)

Folded Mountains

b)

Rift Valley

c)

Deep Sea Trench

d)

Mid Ocean Ridge

e)

Continental Arc Volcanoes

9.

Line of volcanoes on a continental plate; the volcanoes are on a continent above a subducting oceanic plate.

a)

Continental Arc

b)

Island Arc

c)

Hot Spots

d)

Subduction Zone

10.

A string of volcanoes that form as the result of subduction of one oceanic plate beneath a second oceanic plate.

a)

Continental Arc

b)

Island Arc

c)

Hot Spots

d)

Subduction Zone

11.

The region where an oceanic lithospheric plate sinks down into the asthenosphere at a convergent boundary.

a)

Continental Arc

b)

Island Arc

c)

Hot Spots

d)

Subduction Zone

12.

Areas of volcanic activity that result from plumes of hot solid material that have risen from deep inside earths mantle

a)

Continental Arc

b)

Island Arc

c)

Hot Spots

d)

Subduction Zone

13.

Transform Plate Boundaries allow which other boundary to open in small sections, creating mid ocean ridges, and or, rift valleys.

a)

Oceanic - Oceanic Divergent Plate Boundaries

b)

Continental - Continental Divergent Plate Boundaries

c)

The Wasatch Mountains

d)

Continental - Continental Convergent Plate Boundaries

14.
A hot spot is caused by what plate tectonic feature?
a)
Subduction
b)
Mantle Plume
c)
Sea Floor Spreading
d)
Convergent Plate Boundaries
15.

Evidence showing that new crust is created at mid ocean ridges and recycled at subduction zones includes which of the following. (Choose all answers)

a)

Magnetic stipes

b)

Oldest rock is near the subduction zone

c)

Youngest rock is near the mid ocean ridge

d)

Oldest rock is near the middle of the lithospheric plate

e)

Ridge push and Slab Pull

16.

What is the driving force behind lithospheric plate movement? (Check all correct answers)

a)

Convection in the asthenopshere

b)

Flow of Phlogiston in the atmosphere

c)

Ridge Push and Slab Pull in the Lithosphere

d)

Convection in the outer core and the electromagnetic force

e)

Rotational forces from Earth spinning

17.

What two boundaries are pictured here?

a)

Oceanic - Oceanic Divergent Plate Boundary

b)

Continental - Continental Divergent Plate Boundary

c)

Transform Plate Boundary (aka Transform Faults)

d)

Oceanic - Continental Convergent Plate Boundary

18.

How many lithospheric plates are involved here?

a)

2

b)

4

c)

6

d)

3

19.

These are the eruptions of the Yellowstone hotspot. Choose the equations which shows all the accurate steps to calculate the rate of lithospheric plate movement. Oldest eruption is 16 my and the distance from beginning to end is 685 km.

a)

R=DTR=\frac{D}{T} R= 685 km16 myR=\ \frac{685\ km}{16\ my}   R=42.81 kmmyR=42.81\ \frac{km}{my}   

b)

R=TDR=\frac{T}{D} R= 16 my685 kmR=\ \frac{16\ my}{685\ km}   R=.02 mykmR=.02\ \frac{my}{km}   

c)

D=RTD=\frac{R}{T} D= 685 km16 myD=\ \frac{685\ km}{16\ my}   D=42.81 kmmyD=42.81\ \frac{km}{my}   

d)

D=TRD=\frac{T}{R} R= 685 km16 myR=\ \frac{685\ km}{16\ my}   R=42.81 kmmyR=42.81\ \frac{km}{my}   

20.

What is the origin of this volcanic island. Pick all correct answers.

a)

A deep sea trench

b)

A oceanic - oceanic divergent plate boundary.

c)

A hot spot.

d)

A oceanic - oceanic convergent plate boundary.

21.

What is the origin of these volcanic islands.

a)

A mid ocean ridge

b)

A oceanic - oceanic divergent plate boundary.

c)

A hot spot.

d)

A oceanic - oceanic convergent plate boundary.

22.

What is the origin of these volcanic islands. Pick all correct answers.

a)

A mid ocean ridge

b)

A oceanic - oceanic divergent plate boundary.

c)

A hot spot.

d)

A oceanic - oceanic convergent plate boundary.

23.

What boundary created these mountain ranges?

a)

Continental - Continental convergent plate boundary

b)

Oceanic - Continental convergent plate boundary

c)

Oceanic - Oceanic convergent plate boundary

d)

Continental - Continental divergent plate boundary

24.

What boundary split this one mountain range into two mountain ranges? (hint... it is oceanic now, but was it always?)

a)

Continental - Continental convergent plate boundary

b)

Oceanic - Continental convergent plate boundary

c)

Oceanic - Oceanic divergent plate boundary

d)

Continental - Continental divergent plate boundary