WorksheetsPlate Tectonics Test Review
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 34mins
Which two landforms are caused by convergent boundaries?
a trench and a mid-oceanic ridge
mountains and an oceanic trench
a ridge and a rift valley
a Rift Valley and an oceanic trench
About 260 million years ago, Earth's continents moved together to form the supercontinent called
Cambria
North America
Pangaea
Antartica
What is the driving force behind plate movement ?
convection currentss
inertia
gravity
tension
Which of the following discoveries is evidence supporting the idea of continental drift?
the discovery of sea-floor rock patterns due to magnetic reversals
the discovery of matching plat and animal fossils found on different continents
the discovery that rock age increases as distance from mid-ocean ridges increases
the discovery that most earthquakes are near plate boundaries
which layer of Earth does a tectonic plate ride on top of?
outer core
inner core
asthenosphere
lithosphere
Which plate type it thinner and has more dense rock?
rocks on all plates have the same thickness and density
oceanic plate
continental plate
lithospheric plate
why do folded mountain belts to be created at some convergent plate boundaries?
because rock is compressed and forced upward
because subduction oceanic lithosphere melts and rises as magma to Earth's surface
because the rock is stretched apart and breaks, which allows magma to rise to Earth's surface
because convergent plate boundaries occur above hot spots
What is a cause of volcanic islands in the middle of the ocean?
subduction
hot spots
folding
rifting
Where does there tend to be a great amount of volcanic activity?
near magnetic fields
along seashores
at high elevations
near plate boundaries
The lithosphere is the coolest layer of Earth, made up of the:
Crust and upper mantle
Continental crust
Oceanic crust
What types of boundaries do these pictures represent? (Top to bottom)
Divergent, convergent, transform
Transform, divergent, convergent
Divergent, transform, convergent
Which of the following correctly describes how the two plates are moving?
One plate is sinking under the other.
They are moving toward each other.
They are moving away from each other.
The movement of different temperatures of magma in the mantle that causes the plates to move is called:
Seismic waves
Convection currents
Sea-floor spreading
Who proposed their hypothesis of the continental drift in 1912?
Albert Einstein
Alfred Wegener
Dmitri Mendedleev
In sea-floor spreading, molten material rises from the mantle and erupts
at the north and south poles.
along the edges of all the continents.
in deep-ocean trenches.
along mid-ocean ridges.
What is the correct order (starting from the surface) of Earth's layers?
crust, outer core, inner core, mantle
crust, mantle, outer core, inner core
mantle, outer core, inner core, crust
outer core, inner core, crust, mantle
Heat transfer within a fluid takes place through
conduction
radiation
density
convection currents
The type of motion that twists or pulls rock laterally, bending it till it breaks and slides sideways
compression
tension
shearing
subduction
