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Plate Tectonics
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What type of heat transfer is through fluids?
convection
radiation
conduction
2
What type of rock is the continental plate made of?
granite
basalt
sandstone
conglomerate
3
What type of rock is the oceanic plate made of?
basalt
granite
sandstone
conglomerate
4
What TYPE of boundary is at location G?
Ocean-Ocean Convergent
Ocean-Ocean Divergent
Ocean-Continent Convergent
Ocean-Ocean Divergent
5
What is the FORCE in a transform boundary?
shearing
compression
tension
6
How do divergent plates move?
toward each other
slide past each other
apart from each other
7
What is the NAME of boundary is at location G?
East Pacific Rise
Peru-Chile Trench
Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Aleucian Trench
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What TYPE of boundary is at location D?
Ocean-Continent Convergent
Ocean-Ocean Divergent
Ocean-Ocean Divergent
Ocean-Ocean Convergent
9
How long is the mid ocean ridge system?
46,000 miles
126,000 miles
56,000 miles
22 miles
10
The lithospheric plates are being ____
carried by convection currents
pushed at divergent boundaries
pulled at subduction zones
all of these!!
11
What is the density of continental crust?
4.2 g/cm3
2.7 g/cm3
3.0 g/cm3
3.6 g/cm3
12
What is Alfred Wegener's famous theory?
Sea Floor Spreading
Continental Drift
Big Bang
Plate Tectonics
13
What is the type of heat transfer that goes through solids (by touch)?
conduction
radiation
convection
14
What type of boundary is a result of subduction?
divergent
transvergent
transform
convergent
15
How do transform plate boundaries move?
apart from each other
slide past each other
toward each other
16
How long ago did the continents move TOGETHER to form the latest super continent?
260 million years ago
15 million years ago
160 million years ago
200 million years ago
17
In a subduction zone, the plate that is subducted goes through ____ (look at Z)
liquification
partial melting
complete and total melting
solidification
18
Magnetic reversal stripes found on either side of the mid-ocean ridge was evidence for ____
collision
sea floor spreading
subduction
compression
19
The earth's inner core is made of _____
silica and oxygen
hydrogen and oxygen
iron and nickel
aluminum and potasium
20
What is the name of the SUPER CONTINENT?
Pangaea
Gondwannland
Rodinia
Laurasia
21
What type of boundary has volcanic islands?
transform
convergent
divergent
transvergent
22
What scientific piece of evidence supported continental drift?
fossils
glacial deposits
similar mountain ranges
similar rocks
23
What is the FORCE in a convergent boundary?
shearing
compression
tension
24
What type of heat transfer flows through space?
radiation
convection
conduction
25
The further from the mid ocean ridge, the rocks become ____
younger
older
warmer
cooler
26
What type of boundary has a trench?
transform
transvergent
divergent
convergent
27
What type of boundary has volcanic mountains?
divergent
convergent
transvergent
transform
28
The plate that subducts under another is _____.
more dense
larger
less dense
lighter
29
What is the FORCE in a divergent boundary?
tension
compression
shearing
30
What is the NAME of boundary is at location D?
Aleucian Trench
Peru-Chile Trench
Mid-Atlantic Ridge
East Pacific Rise
31
How do convergent plates move?
toward each other
apart from each other
slide past each other
32
What is the density of oceanic crust?
3.6 g/cm3
3.0 g/cm3
2.7 g/cm3
4.2 g/cm3
33
Why was the theory of Continental Drift rejected?
could not find rocks
could not prove how
could not find fossils
could not prove why
