Worksheets8 Sci Plate Tectonics ESS 2-3
Total questions: 36
Worksheet time: 20mins
The cross-section displays the cycling of matter within the mantle beneath a continent. What would the result be?
The continent would be torn apart.
The continent would experience mountain-building.
The continent would be unaffected.
The continent would become an ocean.
The cross-section displays the cycling of matter within the mantle beneath a continent. What would the result be?
The continent would be torn apart.
The continent would experience mountain-building.
The continent would be unaffected.
The continent would become an ocean.
Thermal energy from the Earth's core transfers to the mantle and rock in the mantle melts. Molten rock rises and, from contact with the Earth's crust, the temperature
____. This temperature change causes molten rock to become ____.
increases; less dense
increases; more dense
decreases; less dense
decreases; more dense
What type of plate boundary is pictured?
convergent
divergent
hot spot
transform
What type of plate boundary is pictured?
convergent
divergent
hot spot
transform
What type of plate boundary is pictured?
convergent
divergent
hot spot
transform
For a convergent plate boundary which associated landforms are common?
Trenches
No Landforms
Mid-Ocean Ridges
Mountains or Island Arc
Rift or Rift Valley
For a divergent plate boundary which associated landforms are common?
Trenches
No Landforms
Mid-Ocean Ridges
Mountains or Island Arc
Rift or Rift Valley
For a transform plate boundary which associated landforms are common?
Trenches
No Landforms
Mid-Ocean Ridges
Mountains or Island Arc
Rift or Rift Valley
The fossil remains of Lystrosaurus primitivus were found in parts of Africa, India, and Antarctica. Which explanation do scientists believe explains this best?.
Lystrosaurus had the ability to swim across oceans.
Fossils have a tendency to drift between continents.
The continents were together at one time in the past.
Lystrosaurus utilized quantum mechanic portals for travel.
Plate tectonics proposes that continents are...
less dense portions of large plates floating on the mantle.
nonexistent (they are not really there).
asteroid material captured by the early Earth.
organisms of immense size living as symbiotic parasites with the mantle.
The active boundary of the Pacific Plate is known as...
"Valley of Decision"
"Ring of Fire"
"Ballad of the Ravens"
"House of Lava"
The Pacific Plate appears to be...
convergent
divergent
transform
all three at some point
The crust and upper mantle make up Earth's...
asthenosphere
inner and outer core
lithosphere
mesosphere
Scientists have observed that continents move apart, together, or past each other at speeds of...
25 to 150 centimeters per month.
2.5 to 15 miles per year.
25 to 150 inches per hour.
2.5 to 15 centimeters per year.
Plates of the lithosphere float on the...
asthenosphere
inner and outer core
atmossphere
mesosphere
The presence of the same __ on several continents supports the hypothesis of continental drift.
rocks and fossils
genes and DNA
bacteria and viruses
traditions
landforms
Scientists believe that the continents were together as a supercontinent about __ million years ago.
65
200
125
450
Seafloor rock banding patterns show alternating orientation that indicate our...
inner core has melted and solidified multiple times.
magnetic field has reversed itself in the past.
lithosphere vacillates between dense and less dense phases.
magma shifts from acidic to basic pH over time.
Convection currents inside Earth drive...
the rate at which the planet spins.
the tides and waves of the ocean.
the weather in the atmosphere.
plate motion at the surface.
Created by two divergent plates.
Islands of Hawaii
San Andreas Fault
Marianas Trench
Mid-Atlantic Ridge
The Himalayas
Created by a hot spot under the Pacific plate.
Islands of Hawaii
San Andreas Fault
Marianas Trench
Mid-Atlantic Ridge
The Himalayas
Created by the convergence of two continental plates.
Islands of Hawaii
San Andreas Fault
Marianas Trench
Mid-Atlantic Ridge
The Himalayas
Created by the convergence of an oceanic and a continental plate that leads to the subduction of the oceanic plate.
Islands of Hawaii
San Andreas Fault
Mariana Trench
Mid-Atlantic Ridge
The Himalayas
Created by a transform boundary in California.
Islands of Hawaii
San Andreas Fault
Mariana Trench
Mid-Atlantic Ridge
The Himalayas
__ in Antarctica indicate the continent once had a temperate, rainy climate.
Fish fossils
Salt domes
Coal beds
limestone caverns
Ridge push is a force that causes a plate to move away from the crest of an ocean ridge. At which point is it occurring?
A
B
C
D
Slab pull is that part of the motion of a tectonic plate caused by its subduction. At which point is it occurring?
A
B
C
D
Earth’s continents were once joined as a single landmass called __.
Laurasia
Gondwana
Menzoberranzan
Pangaea
The main points of evidence for this older theory proposed by Alfred Wegener are fossils, rocks, climate, and continent shape.
Topography
Continental Drift
Tech Mechanics
Plate Tectonics
What is true about the core of the Earth?
Has a solid outer core and a molten inner core.
Has a molten outer and inner core.
Has a molten outer core and a solid inner core.
Has a solid outer and inner core.
It is possible to measure plate motion using the __. Scientists use this to precisely measure the positions of specific points on Earth’s surface.
global positioning system (GPS)
cathode ray tube (CRT)
subterranean triangulation array (STA)
metabolic ratio mechanism (MRM)
Which two are true in regards to Wegener's Continental Drift theory?
Has been proven true beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Earth's lithosphere is composed of moving plates.
Earth's continents drift on the ocean bed.
Proposed without a good explanation of a mechanism for movement.
Proposes convection currents in magma as mechanism for movement.
Which two are true in regards to Wegener's Plate Tectonics theory?
Has been proven true beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Earth's lithosphere is composed of moving plates.
Earth's continents drift on the ocean bed.
Proposed without a good explanation of a mechanism for movement.
Proposes convection currents in magma as mechanism for movement.
Oceanic plates are typically __ than continental plates.
thicker and less dense
thinner and less dense
thicker and denser
thinner and denser
__ is a supervolcano caldera above a North American plate hot spot in Wyoming.
Pompeii
Yellowstone
Hawai'i
San Andreas
