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Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 8mins
What is the outermost layer of the Earth?
crust
inner core
mantle
outer core
The crust and upper mantle make up Earth's __________.
asthenosphere
continents
core
lithosphere
Which statement about the Earth's crusts is CORRECT?
Continental and oceanic crusts have the same weight.
Continental crust is heavier than oceanic crust.
Continental crust is thicker than oceanic crust.
Oceanic crust is thicker than continental crust.
What do we call the continuously moving part of the earth's crust?
fault
fissure
fracture
plate
Which theory states that the entire crust is broken and is continuously moving?
Continental Drift
Plate Tectonics
Seafloor Spreading
Titanic Theory
Which of the following is NOT a result of Plate Tectonics?
earthquake
fault lines
landslides
mountains
A landmass that projects well above its surroundings is a mountain. What do you call a chain of mountains?
mountain area
mountain chain
mountain range
mountainous
Plates float on the surface of the mantle. Which plate pushes the Philippine Plate toward the Eurasian Plate?
Cocos Plate
Indo-Australian Plate
Nazca Plate
Pacific Plate
Which statement does best describe the location of the majority of earthquake epicenters relative to the location of volcanoes around the world?
They are far adjacent.
They are always 3 kilometers away from each other.
They are situated at the same location.
They are not necessarily relevant.
How will you relate the distributions of mountain ranges, earthquake epicenters, and volcanoes?
Mountain ranges are found in places between where volcanoes and earthquake epicenters are also situated.
Mountain ranges are found in places where volcanoes and/or earthquake epicenters are also situated.
Mountain ranges are found only in places where earthquake epicenters are situated.
Mountain ranges are found only in places where volcanoes are situated
Plates move apart at __________ boundaries.
convergent
stable
divergent
transform
Plates slide past each other at ________________.
subduction zone
divergent boundary
convection current
transform fault boundary
The boundary between two plates moving toward each other is called a _________.
divergent boundary
transform boundary
lithosphere
convergent boundary
Seafloor spreading is located at _________________________.
transform plate boundary
convergent plate boundary
divergent plate boundary
Indian plate
The East African Rift is an example of a _____________.
mid-ocean ridge
convergent boundary
rift valley
transform boundary
The Himalayan mountain range of India was formed at the __________.
divergent boundary
convergent boundary
hot spot
transform boundary
Philippine plate moves toward __________.
A. Australian plate
B. Arabian plate
C. Antarctic plate
D. Eurasian plate
At the convergent plate boundary, _______________.
new crust is created
the crust separates
the older crust is recycled by subduction
plates side past one another
The force that causes the plates to move is____________________.
tectonic force
gravitational force
radiation
convection current
Features found at divergent plate boundaries include ____________.
mid-ocean ridges
deep-sea trenches
crumpled mountains
island arc volcanoes
When magma in the earth's mantle develops a great pressure, the ground above it is pushed upward. If this happens in the middle of an ocean, what landform is produced?
A. mountain
B. volcanic island
C. volcano
D. continent
The tall landform created when two continental plates converge.
A. mountain range
B. volcanic arc
C. rift valley
D. Oceanic ridge
It is a plate that dives down under a less dense plate during subduction.
A. subducting plate
B. continental plate
C. mantle
D. overriding plate
Materials in the mantle flow up and down. Which of the following best describes the mantle?
A. a solid layer
B. partially liquid
C. a metallic layer
D. very hot layer
Which of the following happens when plates diverge or move away from each other?
A. The crust is destroyed.
B. New crust is produced because magma rises, then cools off and turns into solid.
C. Earth's size changes because mountains are added on the earth's surface.
D. The mantle rises.
A rift valley is formed simultaneously with which of the following type of plate boundary?
A. Convergent plate boundary
B. Divergent plate boundary
C. Transform fault plate boundary
D. Both convergent and divergent plate boundary
How do the plates move when we feel that the ground is shaking?
A. toward each other
B. away from each other
C. slide past each other
D. all of the above
It is a landform produced when two continental plates converge.
A. volcano
B. fault
C. mountain
D. volcanic island
It is otherwise known as an underwater mountain.
oceanic ridge
trench
hill
volcanic island
The place where a subducting plate reaches the mantle during convergence.
collision zone
subduction zone
mantle plume
magma
Hot molten materials in a convection cell rises near the.
outer core
crust
inner core
mantle
The idea that Earth's lithosphere is broken up into separate plates that float on the mantle is the theory of.
continental drift
seafloor spreading
tectonic movement
plate tectonics
The process of one plate moving under another plate is called.
drifting
plate tectonics
seafloor spreading
subduction
The plastic-like upper portion of the mantle is called
the magma
the core
the lithosphere
the asthenosphere
What evidences do scientists use to support the Continental Drift Theory?
rocks, fossils, air
rocks, water, ice
rocks, fossils, climate
rocks, fossils, human beings
The youngest crust is found the mid-ocean ridge.
far
near
beside
away
If you are a cartographer, what would give you an idea that the continents were once joined?
ocean depth
shape of the continents
position of the South Pole
size of the Atlantic Ocean
Which is not evidence of seafloor spreading?
molten magma constantly erupting
drilling samples of rock
fossil evidence
magnetic stripes
The magnets point north when Earth's magnetic field has.
magnetic reversal
reversed polarity
mid-ocean ridge
normal polarity
Why was Alfred Wegener's Continental Drift Theory not accepted immediately by the people during his time?
He cannot explain what causes the continents to drift.
He explains that South America and Africa fit together like a puzzle.
He described that the rocks and mountains at the edges of the continents were similar.
He explains that fossils of ancient plants such as 'Glossopteris' can be found in almost all continents.
What do you call the process that forms and moves new oceanic crust?
magnetic reversal
seafloor spreading
convection
trenching
What do you call the supercontinent landmass formed million years ago?
Pangaea
Panthalassa
Asia
Eurasia
What did Harry Hammond Hess realize in the 1950s when his team continued exploring the ocean floor and discovered the Mid-Atlantic Ridge?
He realized that the oceanic crust is older than the continental crust.
He realized that Alfred Wegener's Continental Drift Theory is not true.
He realized that the oceanic crusts near the Mid-Atlantic Ridge are thicker and less dense.
He realized that the Earth's crust had been moving away on each side of oceanic ridges, down the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
He was credited for the idea of Continental Drift Theory?
Alfred Lothar Wegener
Charles Darwin
Harry Hammond Hess
Robert Dietz
Describe the thickness of sediments near and far from the mid-oceanic ridge:
The sediments are thinner near the ridge but thicker as you go far from it.
The sediments are thicker near the ridge but thinner as you go far from it.
The thickness of the oceanic sediments near and far from the ridge is the same.
The sediments are unevenly distributed.
What type of plate boundary is occurring in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge?
Convergent Plate Boundary
Transform Fault Plate Boundary
Divergent Plate Boundary
Destructive Boundary
The Seafloor Spreading Theory states that.
A. all continents are drifting.
B. ages of rocks near a ridge are older than the ones far from it.
C. fossils of plants and animals are found in almost all continents.
D. hot and less dense material from below the Earth's crust rises towards the surface at the mid-oceanic ridge.
Peer scientists reviewing Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift rejected his notion because
his evidence was too few to make a valid conclusion.
he did not explain how continents move and what moves them.
his evidence was not clear in showing how continents were joined.
he lied by including false evidence.
If there are MORE mid-ocean ridges than subduction zones, what happens to the ocean?
It gets larger.
It sinks.
It gets smaller.
Nothing will change
What strong evidence discovered by our scientist that Earth's magnetic reversal had been happening in the past?
The magnetic reversal occurrence is supported by magnetic patterns in magnetic rocks found on the ocean floor.
The ages of the rocks on the ocean floor are constantly changing.
The magnetic field of the Earth becomes weaker.
The Earth's magnetic field is fluctuating
