Plate Tectonics Quiz

Question 1

What happens to cooled molecules?

Accepted Answer

Lose energy

Question 2

What zone does this image represent

Accepted Answer

Subduction

Question 3

True or false: Plates move faster than real plates

Accepted Answer

False

Question 4

What forms at a subduction zone?

Accepted Answer

Volcanoes

Question 5

What plate boundary forms these features ridges, rift valleys, volcanoes, earthquakes?

Accepted Answer

Divergent

Question 6

What happens to rock at a Transform Boundary?

Accepted Answer

Rock edges rub against eachother and build pressure before breaks and slips

Question 7

True or false: Wegener explained how continents moved

Accepted Answer

False

Question 8

What happens to rock at a subduction zone?

Accepted Answer

Denser rock is melting back into the mantle

Question 9

True or false: Convection occurs in the mantle

Accepted Answer

True

Question 10

True or false: Earth would change without convection

Accepted Answer

False

Question 11

Which boundary causes earthquakes?

Accepted Answer

All boundaries, Transform

Question 12

What forms at a divergent boundary?

Accepted Answer

New rock

Question 13

What happens to heated molecules?

Accepted Answer

Gain energy

Question 14

What is the relationship between density and temperature?

Accepted Answer

Higher temp, lower density

Question 15

True or false: Density increases with temperature

Accepted Answer

False

Question 16

True or false: Convection cycles are continuous

Accepted Answer

False

Question 17

What happens to rock at a hot spot?

Accepted Answer

Lave comes up where plate cracking and creates new rock (forming islands)

Question 18

What is seafloor spreading?

Accepted Answer

Plates move apart

Question 19

What is formed by hot spots

Accepted Answer

Island Chains, Earthquakes at active volcanoes

Question 20

True or false: Plates move due to mantle heat

Accepted Answer

True

Question 21

What happens to rock at a convergent collision zone?

Accepted Answer

Rock is pushed up

Question 22

What evidence supports continental drift?

Accepted Answer

Fit of continents, All of the above, Animal fossils, Rock sequences

Question 23

What happens at a transform boundary?

Accepted Answer

Plates slide past

Question 24

Which boundary is it when plates move away from each other?

Accepted Answer

Divergent

Question 25

What type of plate boundary forms volcanoes, earthquakes and trenches?

Accepted Answer

Convergent subduction

Question 26

What happens at a convergent boundary?

Accepted Answer

Plates move together

Question 27

True or false: Mantle is a flowing solid

Accepted Answer

True

Question 28

Which plates create mountains?

Accepted Answer

Two continental plates

Question 29

What type of plate boundary forms these features highest mountain ranges, earthquakes

Accepted Answer

Convergent collision

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