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Plate tectonics

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 9mins

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Class
Date
1.

What evidence is there for plate tectonics?

a)

Topographic maps that show elevation

b)

Evidence from drilling into the Earth.

c)

Satellite images that show the outlines of the plates.

d)

The geologic events that occur at plate boundaries such as earthquakes andvolcanic eruptions.

2.

What happens in a subduction zone?

a)

Two plates slide past each other and cause earthquakes.

b)

Two plates come together of different densities and one sinks under the otherand melts.

c)

Two oceanic plates diverge and create a ridge.

d)

Two continental plates collide and form mountains.

3.

What is the creation of new crust at divergent oceanic boundaries called?

a)

Seafloor spreading

b)

Subduction zones

c)

Volcanic island arcs

d)

Faulting

4.

What are the three main types of plate boundaries that exist?

a)

Confine, define, and translate

b)

Convergent, divergent, and transform

c)

Contingent, defendant, and transcribe

d)

Complete, deplete, and transplant

5.

Which boundary is characterized by the creation of volcanic mountain ranges?

a)

Convergent Boundaries

b)

Divergent boundaries

c)

Transform boundaries

d)

All plate boundaries

6.

What type of plate boundary exists in California along the San Andreas fault

a)

Convergent boundary

b)

Divergent Boundary

c)

Transform Boundary

d)

All plate boundaries

7.

Which boundary is characterized by the creation of a mid ocean ridge?

a)

Convergent boundary

b)

Divergent Boundary

c)

Transform boundary

d)

All plate boundaries

8.

The collision between the Indian plate and the Eurasian plate caused the formation of the Himalayan mountain range. Which type of convergent boundary is this?

a)

Continent - Continent

b)

Continent - Ocean

c)

Ocean - Ocean

d)

Ocean - Continent

9.

Which boundary is characterized by continental rift valleys?

a)

Convergent boundaries

b)

Divergent Boundaries

c)

Transform boundaries

d)

All plate boundaries

10.

What are the four main layers of Earth?

a)

-Lithosphere

-Aethosphere

-Mesosphere

-Tropisphere

b)

-crust

-lithosphere

-inner core

-outer core

c)

-crust

-mantle

-outer core

-inner core

d)

-mantle

-lithosphere

-inner core

-outer core

11.

What part of Earth's layers do convection currents occur?

a)

crust

b)

mantle

c)

inner core

d)

outer core

12.

Crust is made up of two compositions: ___ crust and ____ crust

(a)  

13.

What are seismic waves?

a)

a wave causing plate tectonics to move

b)

an elastic wave in the earth produced by an earthquake

c)

a wave in the crust

d)

none of the above

14.

Earthquakes are caused by the (a)   of stress built up in rocks

15.

Theory of (a)   tectonics: Earth's surface is composed of major plates that move on top of the mantle