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Earth Science- Ch. 7 Review
Earth Science- Ch. 7 Review
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#5 This process occurs in which layer of Earth?
Innercore
Mantle
Outer core
Crust
2
#12 What kind of plate movement is shown in diagram?
Sliding
Subduction
Spreading
Uplift
3
#24 _______are likely to occur in a divergent plate boundary on land
Rift valleys
Mid-ocean ridge
Volcanoes
Mountains
4
#1 What is Pangaea?
A fern that lives close to the equator
A large ice sheet
A supercontinent made of the present day continents
5
#21 What happens at a transform plate boundary?
Plates slide past each other
Plates move toward each other
Plates move away from each other
6
#27_________are likely to occur when two oceanic plates collide
Rift valleys
Island arcs
mid-ocean ridge
Montains
7
#2 Which of the following is likely to happen at point
B
in the diagram?
Plates are not moving
Plates move toward each other and volcanoes form
Plates move apart and volcanoes form
Plates move past each other sideways
8
#28 On the map,
L
is referring to which tectonic plate?
Indo-Australian
Eurasian
Philippine
Pacific
9
#3 Point A in the diagram is what type of plate boundary?
Transform
Allegiant
Divergent
Convergent
10
#8 What clue supported the continental drift theory?
Puzzle-like fit of all the continents
similar rock structures found on different continents
all above
animal fossils found on continents separated by oceans
11
#11 what is the lithosphere?
the upper part of the mantle
Plates make up the crust and the upper part of mantle
Large, flat stones sitting on top magma
the plates that make up the crust
12
#4 The force responsible for the movement of the plates is called ?
Conduction
Convection curents
Core movement
Radiation
13
#30 What type of boundary is occurring between plates B & D ?
Divergent
Transform
Convergent
14
#32 What is likely to occur at the boundary between Plates F and G?
Subduction
Mid -ocean ridges
Earthquakes
Rift valleys
15
#31 What is likely to occur at the boundary between plates
B
and
D
?
Volcanic eruptions
Earthquakes
Mid-ocean ridge
Mountain building
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15. Which situation does NOT occur along a convergent plate boundary?
volcanoes form
mountains form
crust forms
crust is subducted
17
#6 Which scientist is credited with the continental drift hypothesis?
W. Jason Morgan
Alfred Wegener
J. Tuzo Wilson
Harry Hess
18
#14 What does plate tectonics cause?
Forms ocean basins
Causes volcanoes
All above
Forms mountains
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#20 The type of plate boundary in the diagram is?
Oceanic-oceancic divergent
Oceanic-continental convergent
Oceanic-continental divergent
Oceanic-oceanic convergent
20
#18 In the diagram, B is referring to
Mid-ocean ridge
Magma
Ocean crust
21
10 What evidence proved that S. America,Africa, India, and Australia were covered by glaciers?
Enormous valleys formed by glaciers
Cold climates
Leftover portions of glaciers
Glaciers deposits and glacial grooves scarred in the rocks
22
#9 What is the continental drift theory?
continents have always been located in current locations
continents moved slowly apart to current locations
continents moved quickly apart to current locations on earth
continents are moving slowly together from current locations
23
#19 In the diagram, C is referring to
Mid-ocean ridge
Oceanic crust
Magma
24
#25__________ are likely to occur in oceanic-continental convergent boundary
Mountains
Rift valleys
Volcanoes
Island arcs
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#16 In a divergent plates boundary...
2 plates seperate
Two continental plates collide
An oceanic plate and a continental plate collide
Two plates slide past one another