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Plate Tectonics Unit

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which picture is a DIVERGENT plate boundary?

a)

A

b)

B

c)

C

2.

Which picture is a CONVERGENT plate boundary?

a)

A

b)

B

c)

C

3.

Which picture is a TRANSFORM plate boundary?

a)

A

b)

B

c)

C

4.

Why are there mountains in these places on Earth?

a)

The two tectonic plates collide and one is pushed up.

b)

Tectonic plates do not create mountains.

c)

One plate goes under the other.

5.

What plate boundary is it at the San Andreas Fault?

a)

Transform

b)

Divergent

c)

Convergent

6.

What is happening to the Juan de Fuca Plate and the North American Plate?

a)

The Juan de Fuca plate is converging and going under the North American plate.

b)

The Juan de Fuca plate is moving away from the North American plate.

c)

The Juan de Fuca plate is sliding past North American plate.

7.
What are the 3 major types of rocks?
a)
Igneous, Metamorphic, Sedimentary
b)
Metamorphic, Igneous, Cementation
c)
Brown, Red, Gray
d)
Streak, Hardness, Breakage
8.
When you watch a volcano erupt molten rock, you are seeing _____
a)
Lava
b)
Magma
c)
Mineral Crystals
d)
Igneous Rocks
9.
The process by which metamorphic rocks are formed...
a)
heat and pressure
b)
erosion and deposition
c)
melting and cooling
10.
Rock that forms when sediment from older rocks get pressed and cemented together.
a)
Sedimentary Rock
b)
Metamorphic Rock
c)
Igneous Rock
11.
The process by which igneous rocks are formed...
a)
heat and pressure
b)
melting and cooling
c)
weathering and erosion
12.
The name rock is given when it is broken down into smaller pieces.
a)
texture
b)
weathering
c)
sediment
d)
erosion
13.
_______ rock forms from magma/lava
a)
Metamorphic
b)
Sedimentary
c)
Igneous
14.
This rock was formed by smaller pieces of rock that settled at the bottom of a lake millions of years ago. What type of rock is this?
a)
Sedimentary
b)
Igneous
c)
Metamorphic
15.

In our Lake Nyos Carbon Dioxide Experiment the lowest candle went out first because?

a)

Carbon Dioxide floats

b)

Fire needs oxygen

c)

Carbon Dioxide sinks

d)

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.

16.

This experiment demonstrated the tragic event at Lake Nyos because.....

a)

People need fire to survive and without it the people starved.

b)

The air was replaced with carbon dioxide and people suffocated in their sleep.

c)

Carbon dioxide is poisonous

d)

Carbon dioxide caused warming and people couldn't survive the rise in temperature at Lake Nyos.

17.
What is the thinnest layer of the earth’s composition?
a)
mantle
b)
inner core
c)
crust
d)
outer core
18.
Choose the number where the following description best fits:  Hot lava cools.
a)
1
b)
3
c)
4
d)
5
19.
Choose the number where the following description best fits:  Great pressure and heat.
a)
1
b)
2
c)
3
d)
4
20.
Choose the number where the following description best fits:  Great heat from the center of the Earth causes melting.
a)
1
b)
3
c)
4
d)
5
21.

How do animals get carbon?

a)

Photosynthesis

b)

They absorb it from the atmosphere

c)

The sun

d)

They eat other plants and animals

22.

What is CO2?

a)

Air

b)

Oxygen

c)

Carbon Dioxide

d)

Dioxide

23.

All things are made out of carbon or need carbon to live.

a)

True

b)

False

24.

How is carbon recycled?

a)

The carbon cycle

b)

At the recycle plant

c)

It can't be recycled

d)

Through water

25.
Burning fossil fuel has which effect in the carbon cycle?
a)
It removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
b)
It puts carbon dioxide under the ground.
c)
It adds carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.
d)
It has no effect in the carbon cycle.