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Plate Tectonics - Year 9
Plate Tectonics - Year 9
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Why do Japan and New Zealand experience lots of earthquakes?
They are small countries
Sumo!
They are located on (or near) convergent plate boundaries
They are located on (or near) divergent plate boundaries
2
The boundary where two plates slip past each other, moving in opposite directions is called a
Destructive boundary
Convergent boundary
Transform boundary
Divergent boundary
3
The process that powers plate tectonics is...
Convection and gravity
Radiation and convection
Conduction and convection
Subduction and radiation
4
What is the hottest part of the Earth?
The mantle
The outer core
The core
The crust
5
What are the three types of plate boundaries?
Convergent, Divergent, Transderm
Divergent, Transform, Continue
Transform, Divergent, Convergent
Dimorphic, Transform, Convergent
6
The plate boundary where two plates come together is called a
Convergent boundary
Transform boundary
Volcano
Divergent boundary
7
Mountain ranges match across continents
True
False
8
The layer of the upper mantle that is carried is the...
Lithosphere
Asthenosphere
Inner Core
Core
9
Most scientists rejected Wegner's theory of continental drift because it failed to explain...
Climate changes
How the continents move
Coal deposits in Antarctica
Formation of mountains
10
What is Pangea?
A supercontinent
A continent
An extinct organism
A type of mountain
11
Convergent currents form because of difference in temperate and density in a fluid
False
True
12
Who came up with the theory of continental drift?
Gerald Fitzpatrick
Alfred Wegener
Charles Darwin
Einstein
13
Which country lies on a divergent plate boundary?
USA
Iceland
Australia
England
14
What is the name of the hot liquid that erupts
out
of volcanoes?
Magma
Lava
15
At a transform boundary (fault) land is neither __________ or __________, only moved.
destroyed, created
compressed, lifted
created, destroyed
earthquakes, volcanoes
16
Earthquakes can occur in locations other than plate boundaries?
False
True
17
What is the name for
where
two plates meet?
Plate boundary
Plate of chips
Plate margin
Plate tectonics
18
Which type of crust is thin and dense?
Continental
Oceanic
19
The boundary where two plates move apart, or diverge is called a
Transform boundary
Convergent boundary
Volcano
Divergent boundary
20
Which type of crust is the Pacific plate?
Oceanic
Continental
