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Duplicate of The Earth and Tectonic Plates
Duplicate of The Earth and Tectonic Plates
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A science Quiz to revise topics of layers of the Earth and tectonic plate movement and types.
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How were the Himalayas and Mt Everest formed?
Transform Plates
Diverging Plates
Subduction Processes
Converging Plates
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What is the name of this process?
Transform Boundaries
Subduction
Divergent Boundaries
Convergent Boundaries
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When does Subduction happen?
When 2 Continental Plates collide
When 1 Continental Plate is subtracted from another Plate
When 2 Oceanic Plates collide
When 1 Continental and 1 Oceanic Plate collide
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If animal fossils are found on various continents around the world, what could that mean?
They developed wings to fly to other places, then lost them
They all started in the same place, which then separated
Prehistoric humans took them on rafts to different islands
They travelled across the ocean to live someplace else
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What happens when Transform Boundaries interact with each other?
Mid-Ocean Ridges are formed
Volcanoes are formed
Earthquakes occur
Mountains are formed
6
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge exists in the middle of Iceland. What is happening to it as a result?
The island is being torn in two by Continental Drift
The island is shrinking as earth sinks into the ocean
The island is growing as more crust material is produced
The island experiences violent and frequent earthquakes
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What is an underwater mountain range called?
An Underwater Ridge
An Ocean Rift
An Ocean Ridge
An Ocean Chasm
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What happens when hot magma reaches the ocean surface?
It goes back down into the Earth's core
It separates into rocks that float around the ocean
It cools on the ocean floor to form new earth
It burns freely through the ocean, killing all it touches
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What is a Fault Line?
Where Converging Boundaries exist
Where Transform Boundaries exist
Where Diverging Boundaries exist
Where Subduction exists
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What is the name of this process?
Divergent Boundaries
Subduction
Transform Boundaries
Convergent Boundaries
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What is the movement of the continents called?
Earth Drift
Seafloor Spreading
Continental Drift
Continental Tectonics
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When Tectonic Plates move away from each other, they are called-
Converging Plates
Transforming Plates
Diverging Plates
Emerging Plates
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The thickest layer of the Earth is the...
Inner Core
Asthenosphere
Lithosphere
Mantle
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What is the San Andreas Fault?
A Transform Boundary that often causes earthquakes
A line of volcanoes that erupt frequently in San Andreas
A deep ocean trench that is constantly producing lava
A Converging Boundary that produces massive mountain ranges
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How are massive mountain ranges usually formed?
Diverging (pull-apart) plates
Converging (come together) plates
Deep Ocean Ridge plates
Transform (slide against) plates
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Continental Crusts can collide with Oceanic Crusts. What is NOT produced as a result of this?
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Mountains
Ocean trenches
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Earth travels back into the mantle to be destroyed. Where does this occur?
In Ocean Subduction Zones
In Ocean Fault Lines
In Ocean Rifts
In Ocean Trenches
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The formation of new crust in the bottom of the ocean is called-
Seafoor Spreading
New Ocean Formation
Convection Currents
Mid-Ocean Ridge
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Why do Tectonic Plates move?
Because new earth formation pulls them apart
Because of Earth's gravity pulling them apart
Because global warming affects movement
Because of Convection Currents moving the Lithosphere
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What layer of the Earth contains the Tectonic Plates?
Mantle
Crust
Lithosphere
Asthenosphere
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If there is a rift in the ocean floor, will the rock closest to the rift be oldest or youngest?
Same age
Impossible to tell
Youngest
Oldest
22
What are the edges of Tectonic Plates called?
Borders
Boundaries
Interaction Lines
Border Lines
23
How did Alfred Wegener die?
Fell into a ravine and drowned
Got ran over by a Landrover
Fell into a volcano
Got caught in a blizzard
24
What is the movement of heat in circles beneath the Earth called?
Heat Circles
Subduction
Convection Currents
Heat Currents
25
What is the name of this process?
Subduction
Divergent Boundaries
Transform Boundaries
Convergent Boundaries
26
What is the inner core almost as hot as?
Heat from the atomic bomb
The hottest oven in the world
The surface of the sun
The centre of the sun
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What was the original name of the landmass before it divided into continents?
Earthpangae
Panga
Pangaea
Pangenae
