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2. Plate Margins / Tectonics

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 30mins

Name

Class

Date

This is an image which plate margin?

Constructive

Conservative

Destructive

Collision

This is an image of what plate margin.

Conservative

Collision

Destructive

Constructive

This is an image of which plate margin?

Collision

Constructive

Destructive

Conservative

Which type of plate boundary is this?

Conservative

Constructive

Destructive

Collision

What drives tectonic plate movement?

gravity

coriolis effect

convection currents

the earth's magnetic core

When an oceanic plate and a continental plate collide, which one will subduct?

oceanic

continental

neither

both

The German scientist who first proposed the Theory of Continental Drift 100 years ago?

Harry Hess

Penny Pangea

Alfred Wegener

Gary Gondwana

All of the continents were once part of one large continent called...

Panacea

Pangea

North America

Gondwana

What measures the waves of earthquakes?

seismic wave

seismograph

seismology

a scientist

10.

How do earthquakes and volcanoes shape land?

weathering and erosion can change the land

build up the land

destroy things, but they can also build up the land

break down the land

11.

Which of these are natural hazards?

Volcanic Eruptions

Earthquakes

Tsunami

Cave Arches Stacks and Stumps

12.

When is a natural event a hazard?

When the natural event is very large.

When the natural event impacts on people and human activities.

When the natural event is caused by people and human activities.

All natural events are hazards.

13.

At which type of plate margin does subduction occur?

Destructive plate margin

Constructive plate margin

Conservative plate margin

14.

What tectonic hazard is most likely to occur at a conservative plate margin?

Avalanche

Tsunami

Volcano

Earthquake

15.

Tectonic plates are made up of continental crust and ________ crust.

continental

oceanic

plates

mantle

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2. Plate Margins / Tectonics

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 30mins

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