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WorksheetsEarth Science Quiz
Total questions: 38
Worksheet time: 55mins
Which TWO landforms occur when a continental plate and an oceanic plate hit each other?
Volcanoes on land and Volcanic Islands
Volcanoes on land and Deep Sea Trench
Volcanoes on land and Mountains
Rift Valley and Mid Ocean Ridge
How do most mountains form?
Continents collide and fold up on each other
Earth is shrinking and the crust wrinkles up
Ocean plates diverge and fold up on each other
Gravity from the moon pulls sections of the Earth up
What forms when two CONTINENTAL plates CONVERGE?
Rift Valley
Mid Ocean Ridge
Mountains
Volcanoes on land and ocean trench
What type of event will occur at this boundary?
Earthquake
Volcano Eruption
Tornado
Mountain Building
The Great Rift Valley in Africa and the Mid-Ocean Ridge were all created by this boundary
Divergent
Convergent
Reform
Transform
Which two tectonic plates are along our west coast border?
What type of plate boundary is shown in the picture?
Convergent
Divergent
Transform
What landform would you most likely find at a divergent boundary between two pieces of oceanic crust?
Rift Valley
Mountain
Mid-Ocean Ridge
Volcano
What landform would you most likely find at a divergent boundary between two pieces of continental crust?
Mid-Ocean Ridge
Rift Valley
Mountain
Volcano
When one tectonic plate sinks under another, this is called...
Convegent
Divergent
Subduction
Transform
According to Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift,
Earth's surface is made up of seven major landmasses
The continents were once joined together in a single landmass
Earth is slowly cooling and shrinking
the continents DO NOT move
What is Pangaea?
The name of a German scientist
Another name for continental drift
The name of the super-continent that existed millions of years ago
The name of ancient fossil
What tectonic plate are we located on?
Pacific Plate
North American Plate
Eurasian Plate
Juan de Fuca Plate
What are the three types of volcanoes?
The __________________ are chains of undersea mountains.
Mid-Ocean Ridges
Ocean Trench
Divergent boundary
Transform boundary
______________________ continually adds materials to the ocean floor creating ocean floor.
Sea-floor spreading
Ocean trenches
Divergent mid-ocean ridges
Convergent mid-ocean ridges
What type of plate boundary is shown in the picture?
Convergent
Divergent
Transform
Oceans plates sink back into the mantle at _______________ zones, keeping the crust the same size.
Mid-ocean ridges
Ocean trenches
Subduction
Transforming
The region of the earth's interior between the crust and the core is called the ________________.
Crust
Mantle
Both the crust and the mantle
Both the mantle and the core
What type of volcano has steep sides and multiple chambers resulting in violent explosions.
How did the Rocky Mountains form?
Where are most volcanoes found?
Which type of volcano according to structure is shown in the image below?
composite
cinder cone
shield
extinct
Name structure number 2.
ash cloud
crater
magma chamber
vent
All volcanoes are mountains.
True
false
What is the beginning point of an earthquake?
focus
epicenter
tsunami
lithosphere
About how many Volcanoes are found across the world?
2,000
1,500
300
countless
What is the instrument that is used to measure and classify eruptions?
Richter Scale
Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI).
Seismometer
None of the above
How do earthquakes happen?
The VEI doesn't have an upper limit. True or False
(a)
The lithosphere is made up of the earth's .... and the ....
(a)
The lithosphere is made up of slabs called t........ p.......
(a)
Which type of volcano is currently resting, but could erupt sometime in the future?
Active
Dormant
Extinct
All of the above
What are the layers of the earth? (Be as specific as possible)
