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Geologic Processes

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Which way do convergent plates move in relation to each other?
a)
Come together
b)
Move apart
c)
Slide next to each other
d)
Bend each other
2.

What rock type is made from extreme heat and pressure?

a)

Sedimentary

b)

Igneous

c)

Metamorphic

3.

What rock type is made from cooling lava?

a)

Sedimentary

b)

Igneous

c)

Metamorphic

4.
What term refers to breaking down rocks?
a)
Weathering
b)
Erosion
c)
Deposition
5.
What term refers to moving weathered materials?
a)
Weathering
b)
Erosion
c)
Deposition
6.
What term refers to where eroded materials end up?
a)
Weathering 
b)
Erosion
c)
Deposition
7.
Which of the following is NOT a type of rock?
a)
Sedimentary
b)
Igneous
c)
Metamorphic
d)
Metamorphous
8.
Weathering occurs due to different types of weather.
a)
True
b)
False
9.
Which of the following terms relates to the idea of new ocean floor being created?
a)
Sea floor spreading
b)
Transform boundary
c)
Fault line
d)
Fossil record
10.
What do scientists use as evidence of continental drift?
a)
Sea floor spreading
b)
Fossil record
c)
Coastline shapes
d)
All of these options
11.
Which interaction likely formed Mt. Everest?
a)
Continental vs. Continental convergence
b)
Oceanic vs. Continental convergence
c)
Oceanic vs. Oceanic convergence
d)
Transform boundary
12.
What type of plate boundary is this?
a)
Plate
b)
Divergent
c)
Convergent
d)
Transform
13.
What type of event will occur at this boundary?
a)
Earthquake
b)
Volcano Eruption
c)
Tornado
d)
Mountain Building
14.

The theory that says Earth's continents once made up an ancient supercontinent, and have been drifting apart ever since, is called the theory of...

a)

Pangea

b)

Plate Tectonics

c)

Natural Selection

d)

Gravity

15.

Oceanic Trenches are formed by _______ plate boundaries

a)

Convergent

b)

Transform

c)

Plate

d)

Divergent

16.

How is it possible for new crust to be formed without increasing the surface area of the Earth?

a)

Crust is destroyed at the same time it is created

b)

New crust is underwater where it sinks

c)

New crust breaks more easily than old crust

17.

Which of the following occurs because of convection currents?

a)

Tectonic plates on the crust move.

b)

The mantle increases in size.

c)

Pressure in the crust increases.

d)

Pressure in the crust decreases.

18.

Where does the heat come from that drives this convection current in the mantle?

a)

The sun

b)

The crust

c)

the mantle

d)

the core

19.

During sea floor spreading, molten material rises up from the mantle...

a)

along the continents

b)

at the mid ocean ridges

c)

deep ocean trenches

d)

at north and south poles

20.

The Great Rift Valley in Africa and the Mid-Ocean Ridge were all created by this boundary

a)

Divergent

b)

Convergent

c)

Reform

d)

Transform