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Marine Plate Tectonics
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Brief review of plate tectonics with a focus on marine environment #platetectonics #plateboundaries
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1
Which does
NOT
occur at a convergent zone?
New sea floor
Trench formation
Island formation
Earthquakes
2
Which does not occur when plates move toward each other?
Plate subducted
Earthquakes
New sea floor created
Trench formation
3
Which is the correct order of the regions of the continental margin from beach to open ocean?
Slope, shelf, rise
Shelf, slope, rise
Shelf, rise, slope
Rise, shelf, slope
4
How were the Hawaiian islands formed?
Divergent zone
Volcanoes
Oceanic-oceanic convergent zone
Hot spot
5
Why is continental crust older than oceanic crust?
Too thick to be subducted, new crust is formed in oceans.
Too thick to be subducted, new crust is formed on continent.
Too thin to be subducted, new crust is formed at the ocean.
Too thin to be subducted, new crust is formed on continents
6
What is the name used to indicate a map that describes depth?
Map
Bathymetric
Topographic
Relief
7
Which is the layer that
causes
plate movement?
Mantle
Inner core
Crust
Outer core
8
What evidence was used to piece Pangaea together?
Edges and earthquakes
Guess and check
Fossils and Minerals
Sediments and volcanoes
9
What is the driving force of plate tectonics?
Dense magma
Convection currents
Gravitational pull of Earth's rotation
Heat from the Earth's core
10
What is the name used to indicate a map that describes depth?
Map
Bathymetric
Relief
Topographic
11
At which convergent boundary is a feature like Mount St. Helens formed?
hot spot
oceanic-oceanic
continental-continental
oceanic-continental
12
What technology do scientists use to develop maps like this?
satellites
sonar
submersibles
scuba
13
Which does
NOT
occur during sea-floor
spreading
?
Sea floor is destroyed
Earthquakes
Magma rises
A rift is formed
14
What is produced when two plates pull away from each other?
island arc
plateau
trench
rift
15
What is the term used to describe a map that shows depth under the ocean water?
Bathymetric
Releif
Road map
Topographic
16
Which type of boundary also produces a trench?
they all do
transform
divergent
convergent
17
Which correctly describes the Earth's core?
Hot with a solid core and liquid outer layer
Hot with a liquid core and solid outer layer
Cool with a solid core and liquid outer layer
Cool with a liquid core and solid outer layer
18
What was missing from Alfred Wegener's continental drift proposal?
Evidence to support his proposal
A map of pangaea
Explanation for how it occurred
Proof of continental drift
19
What is the name used to indicate a map that describes depth?
Map
Topographic
Bathymetric
Relief
20
Which of these is not one of the types of convergent motion?
hot spots
oceanic-continental
continental-continental
oceanic-oceanic
21
What did the Glomar Challenger discover about the Mid-Ocean Ridge?
Sediments are older further from the ridge
Sediments are older the closer to ridge
Sediments are created at the ridge
Sediments are subducted beneath ridge
22
Which does not occur at a divergent boundary?
Plate subducted
Earthquakes
Rift formation
New sea floor formed
