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WorksheetsGACA 2a Earth Engine - Tectonics
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 1hrs 5mins
The word tsunami is Japanese for....
dragon water.
harbour wave.
quake wave.
destroyer from the deeps.
The real cause of a tsunami is
an underwater earthquake or landslide.
the influence of gods like Poseidon.
tidal influence from the sun and moon.
hurricane force winds during the hot season.
North America's concern for tsunami's exists ....
along the St. Lawrence 'divide'.
in the Pacific Cascadia region.
in the mid-Atlantic, on the divergent ridge.
in the deepest canyons of Hudson Bay.
The proper word, coming from the ancient Greek, for Earth's crust is...
richtosphere.
cratonia.
asthenosphere.
lithosphere.
What causes the tectonic plates to move around the surface of the Earth?
metoerites hitting the planet
the magnetic poles shifting
convection heat currents
the warming of the planet's climates
Both Mercalli and Richter scales are used to measure....
the intensity of earthquakes.
the distance a P-wave can travel.
how far tectonic plates will travel each year.
the density of rocks.
Pangaea is best described as...
the place where two tectonic plates meet.
a supercontinent 300 million years ago.
the oldest mountain range in the world.
the microplate of Vancouver Island's west coast.
The actual theory of plate tectonics was developed by Canadian
David Suzuki, in 1972.
Max Eckert, in 1939.
Alfred Wegener, in 1915.
J.T. Wilson, in 1968.
At places where tectonic plates pull apart, it is considered a ...
divergent rift zone.
convergent subduction zone.
cataclysmic volcanic zone.
folding uplift zone.
When two plates grind laterally (sideways) beside each other, a resulting earthquake is apt to be a...
an understrike.
a reverse strike
a dip or normal strike.
slip-strike.
The point above where an earthquake actually happens is called the
horst.
focus.
epicentre.
graben.
Intensity 9 or greater earthquakes only hit Canada, according to one insurance bureau, ....
once every thousand years.
once every five hundred years.
once every century.
once per epoch.
When PWaves reach the Outer and Inner Core of the planet, they ....
create rock crystals in the magma.
bounce back to the crust, because the cores are too dense.
stop and fizzle because of the density change.
refract because of the density change.
