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Plate tectonics chapter test review
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1
What makes a chain of volcanic mountains?
2 plates separating
one oceanic plate converging with a continental plate
2 plates sliding past each other
2 ocean plates converging
2
What formed the Himalayan Mountains?
2 continental plates converging
2 oceanic plates converging
2 plates separating
one oceanic plates converging with a continental plate
3
Which of the following is used to measure tectonic plate movement?
centimeters per year
centimeters per day
meters per year
kilometers per year
4
Which type of plate movement is shown in the image?
spreading
subduction
slip
hot spot
5
What does the theory of continental drift explain?
the layers of Earth
how oceans formed
why continents move
how volcanoes formed
6
What type of mountains are formed when rock layers are squeezed together and pushed upward?
Fault-block
Folded
Mount Shasta
Volcanic
7
What caused the formation of the Aleutian Islands?
2 plates slide past each other
2 oceanic plates converge
2 oceanic plates diverge
2 continental plates converge
8
What is the area where two tectonic plates meet called?
a rift zone
a mid-ocean ridge
a boundary
a collision
9
Which is considered the main driving force of plate tectonics?
convection currents
deformation
sea-floor speading
slickensides
10
Which type of plate movement is shown in the image?
Slip
Subduction
Hot Spot
Spreading
11
When Pangaea broke up, which landmasses were formed?
Europe and Africa
Asia and Laurasia
Gondwanaland and Asia
Gondwanaland and Laurasia
12
The boundary where two tectonic plates move away from each other is a
transform
slip
divergent
convergent
13
What causes earthquakes along the San Andreas Fault?
2 plates separate
2 continental plates converge
2 plates slide past each other
two oceanic plates collide
14
The San Andreas Fault marks the boundary between which two plates?
Pacific and Atlantic
North American and Juan de Fuca
North American and Farallon
North American and Pacific
15
What type of boundary is formed when plates collide?
divergent
a convergent
transform
horizontal
16
According to the continental drift theory, a single, huge continent once existed called
Pangaea
Wegener
Laurasia
Gondwanaland
17
What type of fault is shown in the picture?
Strike-slip
Normal
Transform
Reverse
18
Which type of plate movement is shown in the image?
collision
hot spot
subduction
spreading
19
What formed the Mid-Atlantic Ridge?
a transform boundary
2 plates colliding
2 plates sliding past each other
2 plates separating
20
Folded mountains and volcanic mountains form at which type of boundaries?
transform
divergent and transform
convergent
divergent
21
What is a break in a body of rock, along which one block slides relative to another, called
plate tectonics
folding
a fault
slip
22
What is a transform boundary?
where a plate subducts
two plates separate
two plates collide
2 plates slide past each other horizontally
23
Which of the following is not an example of evidence for continental drift?
similar fossil
ancient maps showing where the continents used to be
similar kinds of rock and mountain formation
the shape of the continents
24
Which of the following is the idea that all continents were part of one big landmass?
oceanic drift
continental drift
continental theory
oceanic theory
25
What type of stress caused the fault in the image?
Shear
Compression
Tension
