Unit D: Plate Tectonics

Question 1

New lithosphere is mostly created at what type of plate boundary?

Accepted Answer

divergent

Question 2

What was the large land mass that occurred about 230 million years ago?

Accepted Answer

Pangea

Question 3

What type of boundary is this?

Accepted Answer

divergent

Question 4

What type of boundary is this?

Accepted Answer

transform

Question 5

The distance from the earth's surface to the center of the earth is what?

Accepted Answer

6,000 km

Question 6

What kind of volcano is this?

Accepted Answer

shield

Question 7

What kind of volcano is this?

Accepted Answer

stratovolcano, composite

Question 8

Which of the following explains WHY something happens?

Accepted Answer

theory

Question 9

Plate tectonics helps explain the formation of which of the following?

Accepted Answer

mountains

Question 10

What type of boundary is this?

Accepted Answer

divergent

Question 11

Plate tectonics is the theory that sections of the earth's crust _____.

Accepted Answer

have moved toward & away from each other

Question 12

What type of movement is shown in this picture?

Accepted Answer

convection current

Question 13

The Himalayan mountains, which are along the northern border of India, were formed by ______.

Accepted Answer

the collision of two lithospheric plates

Question 14

Which of the following statements provides evidence for plate tectonics?

Accepted Answer

All answers are true

Question 15

Which one of the following statements is TRUE?

Accepted Answer

Old crust is destoryed and the new crust is formed over time

Question 16

Which of the following is most likely to occur at a transform boundary?

Accepted Answer

earthquakes

Question 17

The world "lithosphere" is used to refer to which layers of the earth?

Accepted Answer

the crust and the upper mantle

Question 18

What is the thinnest layer of the earth?

Accepted Answer

crust

Question 19

What is an example of a hot spot?

Accepted Answer

Hawaii

Question 20

When Alfred Wegener noticed the continents fit together like a puzzle, this was ______.

Accepted Answer

an idea

Question 21

What is the name of the tool that is used to measure the intensity of earthquakes?

Accepted Answer

seismograph

Question 22

Scientific evidence suggests that the earth is ______ of years old.

Accepted Answer

billions

Question 23

What kind of scientist uses evidence from rocks and fossils to understand when events occurred?

Accepted Answer

palentologist

Question 24

What kind of volcano is this?

Accepted Answer

cinder cone

Question 25

Which of the following is an educated guess?

Accepted Answer

hypothesis

Question 26

What type of boundary is this?

Accepted Answer

transform

Question 27

How many tectonic plates are on earth today?

Accepted Answer

over a dozen

Question 28

What type of boundary is this?

Accepted Answer

divergent

Question 29

Plate tectonics refers to the theory that ______?

Accepted Answer

the surface of earth has large plates that move over time

Question 30

Which of the following predicts what will happen?

Accepted Answer

law

Question 31

Continental drift is the idea that ______?

Accepted Answer

the continents were once joined together to form 1 land mass

Question 32

Yucca Mountain _________.

Accepted Answer

all of these answers

Question 33

What type of boundary is this?

Accepted Answer

convergent

Unit D: Plate Tectonics

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Unit D: Plate Tectonics

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