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chapter 10 Plate Tectonics
chapter 10 Plate Tectonics
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Follows PPS 8th grade assessment for Plate tectonics
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1
Alfred Wegener believed all the continents were once joined in a super continent called __
Laurasia
Gonwandwana
Pangaea
BigOLand
2
Plates that collide and press into one another form ______ boundaries.
Trench
Transform
Divergent
Convergent
3
Who won the 2015 NCAA Division 1 Wrestling Title?
University of Michigan
Cornell
Ohio State University
University of Iowa
4
Seafloor spreading occurs because of convection in which layer?
Lithosphere
Asthenosphere
Outer core
Inner core
5
Slap pull occurs at which boundary
Mid-ocean
Convergent
Transform
Divergent
6
The Andes Mountains in South America are volcanic because...
Transform plate movement
Weak lithosphere at hot spot
Ridge push at a divergent boundary
Subduction at convergent plates
7
The crust is a thin, rigid layer that forms the outermost part of the
Core
Lithosphere
Mantle
Asthenosphere
8
A force that move massive tectonic plates
ALL of these
Convection
Ridge push
Slab pull
9
What is responsible for the stripe-like appearance of rocks on ocean floor
density of the rocks
temperature of rock
age of rocks
magnetic reversal
10
What does this image demonstrate?
Density differences
Symmetry of magnetic reversals
Bar codes
Highways lanes
11
Tracking major quakes and volcanoes, we can map The________ _______ of ______
Pacific Ring of Fire
Pacific Square of Pain
Atlantic Ring of Fire
Indian Ring of Danger
12
What type of boundary is shown in the diagram?
Mexican
Divergent
Transform
Convergent
13
Deep ocean trenches are formed at _________
continent-continent collision
hot spots
Subduction zones
Mid-ocean ridges
14
In which location are the crust layers the densest?
At continents
There's no difference
At ocean floor
At the mountains
15
Where do deep ocean trenches form?
transform boundary
hot spots
convergent boundary
divergent boundary
16
This diagram of the Hawaiian islands is a good example of ______
Transform plates
Convergent plates
Hot Spot
Divergent plates
17
Which was NOT a clue Wegener used to support his hypothesis?
Fossil Evidence
Climate Evidence
Convection currents
Rock clues
18
Plates sliding past one another = ________ boundary
Transform
Divergent
Ridge
Convergent
19
A long underwater mountain chain that has steep narrow valley at its ceter
Island arc
Deep Ocean trench
paleomagetic core
Mid-ocean ridge
20
What type of boundary is this?
Red Zone
Convergent
Divergent
Transform
21
Which is an example of an island arc formed by subducting plate boundary?
Gilligan's island
Mackinac island
Hawaiian islands
Alaska's Aleutian islands
22
The study of the alignment of magnetic minerals in rocks
Magnetology
Magnetic attraction
Paleomagetism
Rockology
23
Who left One Direction?
Nial
Harry
Liam
Zane
24
What was the name of Alfred Wegener's hypothesis?
Pangaea
Super Continent
Continental Drift
Plate tectonics
25
The age of the oceanic crust proves that at the plate boundary the plates move
Are motionless in position
Toward one another
Away from one another
Slide past one another
26
Volcanoes are found at _______
Hot spots
Convergent boundaries
ALL of these
Divergent boundaries
27
Who is this?
Woodrow Wilson
Winston Churchill
Alfred E. Neuman
Alfred Wegener
28
Plates that pull away from one another = _____ boundaries
Convergent
Canadian
Transform
Divergent
29
What type of boundary is shown in the diagram?
Transform
Divergent
Out of
Convergent
30
Where one oceanic plate slide beneath another plate at a subduction zone, what can occur?
Earthquakes
All of these
Deep Ocean trench
Volcanic mountains `
