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Y9 Plate Tectonics Knowledge Check

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the process that causes tectonic plates to move?

a)

Magma

b)

Crust

c)

Convection Currents

d)

Constructive Margins

2.

What are the two types of crust?

a)

Oceanic and Continental

b)

Continental and Crust

c)

Lower and Upper

d)

Stuffed Crust and Deep Pan Crust

3.

What is the name of this plate margin?

a)

Constructive

b)

Destructive

c)

Collision

d)

Conservative

4.

What is the name of this plate margin?

a)

Constructive

b)

Destructive

c)

Collision

d)

Conservative

5.

What is the name of this plate margin?

a)

Constructive

b)

Destructive

c)

Collision

d)

Conservative

6.

What is the name of this plate margin?

a)

Constructive

b)

Destructive

c)

Collision

d)

Conservative

7.

Which of the following margins has no volcanic activity?

a)

Constructive

b)

Destructive

c)

Collision

d)

Conservative

8.

In which layer of the Earth would you find convection currents?

(a)  

9.

What forms when two CONTINENTAL plates collide?

a)

Rift Valley

b)

Mid Ocean Ridge

c)

Fold Mountains

d)

Volcanoes

10.

This is where plate material may be destroyed (or recycled) and returned to the mantle.

a)

Destructive Margin

b)

Constructive Margin

c)

Conservative Margin

11.

Which of the statements is true?

a)

Oceanic crust is denser than continental

b)

Ocean crust is thicker than continental

c)

Oceanic crust cannot melt but continental can

d)

Oceanic crust is equal density to continental

12.

Which of the following two statements are true?

a)

Oceanic plates always subducted into the mantle at margins

b)

Volcanoes occur at every plate margin

c)

Earthquakes occur at every plate margin

d)

Volcanoes and earthquakes are increasing due to climate change

13.

What is the name given to the 'super continent' that existed around 280 million years ago?

a)

Wegner

b)

Pangea

c)

Continental Harmony

d)

Panna Cotta

14.

What is the new theory that explains how plates move?

a)

Slob Push

b)

Continental Slab

c)

Conveyor Belt Pull

d)

Slab Pull

15.

What was the name of the scientist who discovered the continental drift theory?

a)

Arsene Wenger

b)

Alfred Wegner

c)

Ally Whoop

d)

Abso Lutely Noidea