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WorksheetsPlate Tectonics Quiz
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
What are the three types of plate boundaries?
Divergent boundaries, convergent boundaries, and transform boundaries
Subduction boundaries, collision boundaries, and sliding boundaries
Oceanic boundaries, continental boundaries, and island boundaries
Tectonic boundaries, fault boundaries, and rift boundaries
What is the main evidence for plate tectonics?
Volcanic eruptions
Fossils found in different continents
Matching shapes of coastlines on different continents
Earthquakes
Who proposed the theory of continental drift?
Alfred Wegener
Marie Curie
Isaac Newton
Charles Darwin
What is seafloor spreading?
The process by which new oceanic crust is formed and moves away from the mid-ocean ridge.
The process by which new oceanic crust is formed and remains stationary at the mid-ocean ridge.
The process by which new oceanic crust is formed and moves towards the mid-ocean ridge.
The process by which new oceanic crust is destroyed and sinks into the mantle.
What are the three types of plate tectonic boundaries based on movement?
convergent boundaries, divergent boundaries, and transform boundaries
subduction boundaries, collision boundaries, and sliding boundaries
convergent boundaries, divergent boundaries, and transform boundaries
continental boundaries, oceanic boundaries, and fault boundaries
What is the name of the supercontinent that existed millions of years ago?
Gondwana
Laurasia
Atlantis
Pangaea
What causes earthquakes at plate boundaries?
volcanic activity
weather patterns
tectonic plate movement
ocean currents
What is the process of subduction?
One tectonic plate moving alongside another and floating on the mantle.
One tectonic plate moving over another and rising above the mantle.
One tectonic plate moving away from another and separating from the mantle.
One tectonic plate moving under another and sinking into the mantle.
What is the name of the boundary where two plates slide past each other horizontally?
convergent boundary
subduction boundary
transform boundary
divergent boundary
What is the relationship between plate tectonics and volcanic activity?
Volcanic activity can cause plate tectonics.
Plate tectonics and volcanic activity are unrelated.
Volcanic activity is a result of weather patterns.
Plate tectonics can cause volcanic activity.
