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Review - PDOL Plate Tectonics

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What geologic feature/event would you most likely to find at a convergent boundary between two pieces of continental crust?
a)
Volcano
b)
Mountain
c)
Rift
d)
Island Arc
2.

When two oceanic crusts converge, what crustal feature is likely to form?

a)

Fossil layers

b)

Trench & Volcano

c)

Deep-sea sediment

d)

Seafloor spreading

3.
If contour lines are close together, then the slope is
a)
gentle
b)
steep
c)
flat
d)
going up and down
4.

What kind of plate boundary is shown here?

a)

divergent

b)

convergent

c)

transform

d)

strike slip

5.

What geologic feature/event would you most likely to find at a divergent boundary between two pieces of continental crust?

a)

Mid-Ocean Ridge

b)

Mountain

c)

Rift Valley

d)

Island Arc

6.
What type of event will occur at this boundary?
a)

Fault

b)
Volcano Eruption
c)
Tornado
d)
Mountain Building
7.

The satellite photo below shows the city of

Brownsville, Texas. Which area of the coastline

experiences the greatest effect of erosion from

waves over hundreds of years?

a)

A

b)

B

c)

C

d)

D

8.

A group of geologists found that the chemical composition and age of two rock samples from two different mountains located in South America and Africa came from the same source of magma. This important discovery provides evidence of:

a)

Global Warming

b)

Erosion

c)

Weathering

d)

Plate Tectonics

9.

Folded mountains are created by:

a)

Convergent Boundaries      

b)

Subduction Boundary

c)

Divergent Boundaries

d)

Transform Boundary

10.

Match the topographic map to its profile.

a)
b)
c)
d)
11.

Which side is steeper?

a)

The left side of the hill

b)

The right side of the hill

12.

Match the topographic map to its profile.

a)
b)
c)
d)
13.

The Himalayan mountains are shown on the map below. Which of the following options desctibes the geologic process that formed the Himalayan mountains?

a)

Convergent Boundaries

b)

Divergent Boundaries

c)

Transform Boundaries

14.

Which side is steeper?

a)

The left side of the hill

b)

The right side of the hill

15.

Which of the following statements could you use as confirmation of Alfred Wegener's theory of Continental Drift?

a)

He had no idea what he was talking about.

b)

Earth has several concentric layers.

c)

Tectonic plates float above magma and move due to convection currents.

d)

There are two cores on earth - the inner core and the outer core.