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Plate interactions

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

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Class
Date
1.

Which of the following plate boundaries would you find a Subduction Zone?

a)

Convergent Plate Boundaries

b)

Divergent Plate Boundaries

c)

Transform Plate Boundaries

d)

Convection Plate Boundaries

2.

Which of the following plate boundaries would you find a Mid-Ocean Ridge?

a)

Divergent Plate Boundaries

b)

Convergent Plate Boundaries

c)

Transform Plate Boundaries

d)

Convection Plate Boundaries

3.

Which of the following plate boundaries would you find a fault line?

a)

Transform Plate Boundaries

b)

Convergent Plate Boundaries

c)

Divergent Plate Boundaries

d)

Convection Plate Boundaries

4.

Which of the following images show a Convergent Plate boundary?

a)
b)
c)
d)
5.

Which of the following images show a Divergent Plate boundary?

a)
b)
c)
d)
6.

Which of the following images show a Transform Plate boundary?

a)
b)
c)
d)
7.

In plate tectonics, what is a Hotspot?

a)

A plume of unusually hot magma that may rise to the crust and create a volcano

b)

A place where you have really good internet service

c)

A section of crust that has an unusually high amount of Earthquakes

d)

A place in Earth's core where there is a high amount of radiation

8.

Make the following statement true:

Subduction zones are areas where crust is ___________, where Mid ocean ridges are areas where crust is ____________.

a)

destroyed, created

b)

wrinkly, smooth

c)

created, destroyed

d)

dense, not dense

9.

At a convergent plate boundary, the __________ plate will usually subduct underneath the other.

a)

Denser

b)

Less Dense

c)

Stronger

d)

Weaker

e)

Continental

10.

Which of the following features would be good evidence of a nearby subduction zone? (2)

a)

A trench

b)

Volcanos

c)

Watershed

d)

Mid-Ocean Ridges

11.

True or False? Trenches and Mid-ocean ridges are just two words for the same thing.

a)

True

b)

False

12.

Which of these scenarios describes the effect of isolation on the evolution of species?

a)

Differences in behavior can isolate populations, such as when groups of a bird population inhabit different trees in the same forest.

b)

They all evolved separately from each other over hundreds of years.

c)

The break-up of the supercontinent Pangaea separated members of a species onto two different continents. Each group evolved in such a way that they eventually became two different species.

d)

As animals that migrate north yearly evolve into new species. Animals that migrate south yearly do not evolve.

13.

The image illustrates which of the following processes?

a)

the grinding of plates sliding past each other, forming a fault

b)

the subduction of one tectonic plate beneath another, forming a trench

c)

the divergence of tectonic plates, forming a rift zone

d)

the convergence of tectonic plates, forming a mountain range

14.

This diagram illustrates which of the following processes?

a)

the divergence of tectonic plates forming a subduction zone

b)

the divergence of tectonic plates forming a mid-ocean ridge

c)

the grinding of plates sliding past each other forming fault-block mountains

d)

the convergence of tectonic plates forming an underwater mountain range

15.

Convection Currents occur in the

a)

Inner Core

b)

Mantle

c)

Crust

d)

Outer Core

16.

What scientist came up with the idea of continental drift?

(a)  

17.

A boundary between two plates that are moving apart is called?

a)

Constructive

b)

Destructive

c)

Conservative

18.

A boundary between two plates that are sliding past each other is called?

a)

Destructive

b)

Constructive

c)

Conservative

19.

Which type of boundary creates mountains

a)

Continental vs Continental

b)

Continental vs Oceanic

c)

Oceanic vs Oceanic

20.
The movement of metals within the earth's outer core cause a ____________________________ that is detectable on the earth's surface using a compass
a)
Gravitational Pull
b)
Volcanic Eruption
c)
Magnetic field
d)
Convection Current