WorksheetsPlate Tectonics Unit
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 12mins
Which picture is a DIVERGENT plate boundary?
A
B
C
Which picture is a CONVERGENT plate boundary?
A
B
C
Which picture is a TRANSFORM plate boundary?
A
B
C
Why are there mountains in these places on Earth?
The two tectonic plates collide and one is pushed up.
Tectonic plates do not create mountains.
One plate goes under the other.
What plate boundary is it at the San Andreas Fault?
Transform
Divergent
Convergent
What is happening to the Juan de Fuca Plate and the North American Plate?
The Juan de Fuca plate is converging and going under the North American plate.
The Juan de Fuca plate is moving away from the North American plate.
The Juan de Fuca plate is sliding past North American plate.
In our Lake Nyos Carbon Dioxide Experiment the lowest candle went out first because?
Carbon Dioxide floats
Fire needs oxygen
Carbon Dioxide sinks
Carbon dioxide is denser than air and sinks to the bottom of the container and replaces the oxygen that is less dense and extinguishes the flame.
This experiment demonstrated the tragic event at Lake Nyos because.....
People need fire to survive and without it the people starved.
The air was replaced with carbon dioxide and people suffocated in their sleep.
Carbon dioxide is poisonous
Carbon dioxide caused warming and people couldn't survive the rise in temperature at Lake Nyos.
How do animals get carbon?
Photosynthesis
They absorb it from the atmosphere
The sun
They eat other plants and animals
What is CO2?
Air
Oxygen
Carbon Dioxide
Dioxide
All things are made out of carbon or need carbon to live.
True
False
How is carbon recycled?
The carbon cycle
At the recycle plant
It can't be recycled
Through water
