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- 1. Multiple Choice
The type of plate boundary where two plates come together is a .....
Convergent Boundary
Divergent Boundary
Transform Boundary
Plate Boundary
- 2. Multiple Choice
Which of the following causes Earth's tectonic plates to move?
Energy from the Sun
Magnetic Pole Reversal
Convection currents in the mantle
Faults in Mountain Ranges
- 3. Multiple Choice
What type of event will occur at this boundary?
Earthquake
Volcano Eruption
Tornado
Mountain Building
- 4. Multiple Choice
A divergent boundary occurs when plates ....
Pull apart
Come together
Slide past each other
subducting
- 5. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is the name of the ancient supercontinent formed 28 Million Years ago.
Pangea
Gondwanda
Laurasia
Neverland
- 6. Multiple Choice
Mountains are created when....
Two continental plates collide
Two oceanic plates pull apart
An Oceanic plate subducts under a Continental Plate
Two continental plates pull apart
- 7. Multiple Choice
The Great Rift Valley in Africa and the Mid-Ocean Ridge were all created by this boundary
Divergent
Convergent
Reform
Transform
- 8. Multiple Choice
The tectonic plates float on the
lithosphere
lower mantle
outer core
asthenosphere
- 9. Multiple Choice
What occurs when two plates come together and the denser one is forced under back into the mantle?
reduction
conduction
subduction
convection
- 10. Multiple Choice
Most geologists rejected Alfred Wegener's idea of continental drift because...
it did not agree with their current theory
Wegener was interested in what Earth was like millions of years ago
Wegener used several different types of evidence to support his hypothesis
Wegener could not identify the force that moved the continents
- 11. Multiple Choice
The youngest rocks on the seafloor are most likely found...
closest to a mid-ocean ridge
farthest from a mid-ocean ridge
near the coastlines
closest to a deep sea trench
- 12. Multiple Choice
What geologic process formed the Himalayas?
two continental plates converging
an earthquake in a subduction zone
a tectonic plate moving over a hot spot
movement at a transform fault boundary
- 13. Multiple Choice
What is the correct order (starting from the surface) of Earth’s layers?
crust, outer core, inner core, mantle
mantle, outer core, inner core, crust
crust, mantle, outer core, inner core
outer core, inner core, crust, mantle
- 14. Multiple Choice
In sea-floor spreading, molten material rises from the mantle and erupts
along the edges of all the continents.
along mid-ocean ridges.
in deep-ocean trenches.
at the north and south poles.
- 15. Multiple Choice
The process by which the ocean floor sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle is known as _______
convection.
continental drift.
subduction.
conduction.
- 16. Multiple Choice
Most geologists think that the movement of Earth’s plates is caused by _______
convection.
continental drift.
subduction.
conduction.
- 17. Multiple Choice
The geological theory of _______ states that pieces of Earth’s lithosphere are in constant, slow motion.
subduction
plate tectonics
deep-ocean trenches
sea-floor spreading
- 18. Multiple Choice
A place where two plates slip past each other, moving in opposite directions, is known as a _______
transform boundary
divergent boundary.
convergent boundary.
rift valley.
- 19. Multiple Choice
Scientists think that convection currents flow in Earth’s
continents.
mantle.
lithosphere.
inner core.
- 20. Multiple Choice
The place where two plates come together is known as a _______
transform boundary.
divergent boundary.
convergent boundary.
rift valley.
- 21. Multiple Choice
Below is a picture of sea-floor spreading. How are the ocean crusts moving?
Converging
Diverging
Sliding
No movement
- 22. Multiple ChoiceHow is it possible for new crust to be formed without increasing the surface area of the Earth?Crust is destroyed at the same time it is createdNew crust is underwater where it sinksNew crust breaks more easily than old crust
- 23. Multiple ChoiceThis layer of Earth is the thickest partcrustouter coremantleinner core
- 24. Multiple ChoiceWhat are the two types of crustcontinental and oceanicocean and upperlower and upperpizza and subway
- 25. Multiple ChoiceWhat type of boundary is the SAN ANDREAS FAULT on?CovergentTransformersDivergentTransform
- 26. Multiple ChoiceWhat are Tectonic Plates?A continentThe Trees in VietnamThE PlaTES That MoVE uNdERGRound :)The Plates that move the Continents
- 27. Multiple ChoiceA German scientist Alfred Wegener was the first to hypothesize that ...........Continents were once joinedThe sea floor is spreadingContinents are movingThe Earth's magnetic pole flips
- 28. Multiple Choice
Wegener suggested that coal beds (from plant fossils) discovered in Antarctica indicated that this continent was
once under water
always frozen
once near the equator
part of Africa
- 29. Multiple ChoiceWhere are most divergent boundaries located?Along the middle of most ocean floorsAlong the margins of most continentsAcross the middle of many continentsAll the above options are correct
- 30. Multiple ChoiceThe mechanism that moves continents is based on heat energy moving byRadiation in the coreConduction in the lithosphereConvection in the AsthenosphereNone of these options is true
- 31. Multiple ChoiceA ______ is a section of the lithosphere that slowly moves over the asthenosphere, carrying large slabs of continental and oceanic crust.wedgeplatechunkfault
- 32. Multiple ChoiceA break in Earth's crust along which rocks move is called a ________.plateriftfaultbreach
- 33. Multiple Choice_________ are vibrations that travel through Earth carrying the energy released during an earthquake.Seismic WavesRumblesPlate TectonicsConvection Currents
- 34. Multiple ChoiceThe movement of fluid, caused by differences in temperature, that transfers heat from one part of the fluid to another is _____________.Convection currentSeismic wavesSea-floor spreadingConduction current
- 35. Multiple ChoiceA __________ is a deep valley along the ocean floor beneath which oceanic crust slowly sinks toward the mantle.deep-ocean trenchrift valleysea-floor spreadingmid-ocean ridge
- 36. Multiple Choice___________ is the theory that pieces of Earth's lithosphere are in constant motion, driven by convection currents in the mantle.Seismic wavesConvection currentDivergent boundaryPlate tectonics
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