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Lesson 3: Development of Features

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 20mins

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1.

What is the Earth's lithosphere made of?

a)

huge plates

b)
Frozen water
c)
Gaseous atmosphere
d)
Liquid magma
2.

Regions of the lithosphere cannot move up and down.

a)

true

b)

false

3.

As features are built up and worn down...

a)
the Earth's surface changes only due to human activities
b)
the Earth's surface remains unchanged
c)

rock and sediment are moved across Earth's surface.

d)
features are not affected by natural processes
4.

(a)   is an idealized state of balance between gravitational and buoyant forces acting on Earth's lithosphere, which results in different elevations.

5.

What do scientists use the top of the lithosphere for?

a)
conducting geological studies and monitoring tectonic plate movements
b)
storing water and other resources
c)

define uplift and subsidence as well as up and down motion.

d)
growing crops and plants
6.

subsidence is the....

a)

caving in of an area of land

b)
rapid growth of vegetation
c)

sinking of an area due to geological processes

d)
sudden eruption of a volcano
7.

to raise; the act, process, or result of raising or lifting up and upheaval is known as (a)  

8.

Rocks can be formed by....

a)
Accumulation and compression of sediments
b)

forces from plate tectonics

c)

changes of mass due to surface processes

d)
Biological decay
9.

Breaks in the rocks along with sections of rock are known as (a)  

10.

Deep in the lithosphere, high pressure and temperature can make rock more likely to bend than break.

a)

true

b)

false

11.

What can occur at convergent boundaries due to reverse faults....

a)

Formation of mountain ranges due to the crust piling up.

b)
Formation of deep ocean trenches
c)
Development of wide, flat plateaus
d)
Creation of new oceanic crust
12.

What happens to tectonic plates over time....

a)
They remain stationary
b)
They shrink in size
c)
They move and interact with each other
d)

change over time

13.

What tends to happen to oceanic crust as plates move and change?

a)
It tends to be subducted
b)

It tends to be melted and formed from magma

c)
It tends to disappear completely
d)
It tends to turn into gold
14.

Constructive Process

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15.

Which of these features indicates a passive continental margin?

a)

a range of folded mountains

b)

a chain of active volcanoes

c)

a deep trench

d)

deep soil and sediments

16.

Destructive Process

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17.

What characteristics tell you that you are on a boundary where subduction is taking place?

a)

wide, flat layers of sediment on the continental shelf

b)

a salt dome near an area of subsidence

c)

a volcano, mountains made of rock from islands and the ocean floor

d)

matching patterns of rock on the two sides of a boundary

18.

Which surface processes can be both destructive and constructive?

a)

floods, landslides, wind-carried particles

b)

weathering, deposition, subduction

c)

rift formation, volcanoes

d)

earthquakes

19.

tectonic plates

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20.

What did you learn this lesson or during this short quiz game?

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