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Plate Tectonics

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which tectonic plate is shown in this map?

a)

African

b)

Eurasian

c)

North American

d)

Pacific

2.

What was Pangaea?

a)

The first animal lifeforms

b)

Fossils found in continental crust

c)

The processes of mountain building

d)

A supercontinent

3.

Which of the following is not a processes causing tectonic plates to move?

a)

Slab-pull

b)

Ridge-push

c)

Mantle-drag

d)

Plate-shove

4.

Which plate boundary is shown in the diagram?

a)

Convergent

b)

Divergent

c)

Conservative

d)

Collision

5.

Which of the following facts about the lithosphere are true?

a)

It includes the crust and uppermost mantle

b)

The word means 'rocky'

c)

It is liquid and flows

d)

It is solid and brittle

6.

Which of the following facts about the asthenosphere are true?

a)

It is ductile and pliable

b)

The word means 'very strong'

c)

It includes the upper mantle

d)

It is located beneath the lithosphere

7.

Which of the following statements about oceanic crust are true?

a)

Thick, dense and young granite

b)

Thin, dense and young basalt

c)

Thin, less dense and young basalt

d)

Thick, dense and old granite

8.

On which type of plate boundary are the Aleutian Islands formed?

a)

Divergent

b)

Convergent (oceanic-continental)

c)

Convergent (oceanic-oceanic)

d)

Conservative

9.

What feature can be seen in this photograph?

a)

Mid-ocean ridge

b)

Deep sea trench

c)

Volcanic island arc

d)

Rift valley

10.

Which of the following terms matches correctly to the diagram?

a)

W = Volcanic island arc

b)

X = Fold Mountains

c)

Y = Convergence

d)

Z = Subduction

11.

Which of these processes occurs at a divergent plate boundary?

a)

Subduction

b)

Uplift

c)

Folding

d)

Seafloor spreading

12.

Which of the following features is found at a divergent plate boundary on continental crust?

a)

Mid-ocean Ridge

b)

Rift Valley

c)

Fold Mountains

d)

Deep Sea Trench

13.

Which of the following terms matches correctly to the diagram?

a)

A = Rift Valley

b)

B = Mid-Ocean Ridge

c)

C = Sea-floor spreading

d)

D = Divergence

14.

At which type of plate boundary are the Andes mountains and the Peru-Chile Trench formed?

a)

Convergent (subduction)

b)

Convergent (collision)

c)

Divergent

d)

Conservative

15.

Which of the following types of stress formed the Himalayan fold mountains?

a)

Tension

b)

Shearing

c)

Compression

d)

Abrasion