WorksheetsPreTest 6 - Plate Tectonics
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 12mins
What type of plate boundary is shown in the picture?
Convergent
Divergent
Transform
What type of plate boundary is shown in the picture?
Convergent
Divergent
Transform
What type of plate boundary is shown in the picture?
Convergent
Divergent
Transform
What geologic event would most likely be found at a transform boundary?
Volcano
Mountain
Earthquake
Mid-Ocean Ridge
What landform would you most likely find at a divergent boundary between two pieces of oceanic crust?
Rift Valley
Mountain
Mid-Ocean Ridge
Volcano
What landform would you most likely find at a divergent boundary between two pieces of continental crust?
Mid-Ocean Ridge
Rift Valley
Mountain
Volcano
What landform would you most likely find at a convergent boundary between two pieces of continental crust?
Mid-Ocean Ridge
Oceanic Trench
Mountain
Volcano
What landform would you most likely find at a convergent boundary between two pieces of oceanic crust?
Rift Valley
Mid-Ocean Ridge
Mountain
Ocean Trench
When one tectonic plate sinks under another, this is called...
Convegent
Divergent
Subduction
Transform
Which type of boundary do plates move away from each other?
Convergent
Divergent
Transform
Plate movement is caused by ____________.
the rotation of the Earth
convection currents in the mantle
ocean tides
the moon's gravity
What are the two types of crust?
Thick and thin
Ocean and basin
Lower and upper
Continental and oceanic
What is Pangaea?
The name of a German scientist
Another name for continental drift
The name of the super-continent that existed millions of years ago
The name of ancient fossil
According to Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift,
Earth's surface is made up of seven major landmasses
The continents were once joined together in a single landmass
Earth is slowly cooling and shrinking
the continents DO NOT move
What type of evidence was NOT used by Alfred Wegener to support his continental drift theory?
evidence from landforms
evidence from human remains
evidence from fossils
evidence from climate
The geological theory that states that pieces of Earth's lithosphere are in constant, slow motion is the theory of
subduction
plate tectonics
evolution
seafloor spreading
The youngest rocks on the ocean floor are located ____.
near continents
at mid-ocean ridges
far from mid-ocean ridges
near Asia
The crust and upper mantle make up Earth's ____.
asthenosphere
lithosphere
core
continents
Seafloor spreading occurs because ____.
new material is being added to the asthenosphere
earthquakes break apart the ocean floor
sediments accumulate at the area of spreading
molten material beneath Earth's crust rises to the surface
