Plate Tectonics

Question 1

The _____ scale measures the amount of energy released by an earthquake.

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Richter

Question 2

Which force may be associated with a normal fault?

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tension

Question 3

What type of fault is illustrated in the diagram?

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reverse

Question 4

Divergent boundaries with basaltic magma form

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new ocean crust

Question 5

Granite makes up the _____ crust and basalt makes up the _____ crust.

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continental; oceanic

Question 6

Orogenesis (orogeny) means

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mountains are built on continents

Question 7

What type of boundary is occurring between the South America & Nazca Plates?

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convergent

Question 8

P waves travel through both liquids and solids. S waves travel through

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solids

Question 9

Which seismic wave travels the fastest?

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P (primary) waves

Question 10

A cool, rigid layer of crust and upper mantle that forms the tectonic plates is called the

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lithosphere

Question 11

India and Australia move away from each other. What type of boundary will form?

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divergent

Question 12

All of the following may be found at a convergent boundary EXCEPT

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rift valleys

Question 13

Alfred Wegener argued the theory of

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continental drift

Question 14

The area with the Playa lake would be considered a

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graben

Question 15

Name the rock feature

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anticline

Question 16

Composite volcanoes are

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the most violent

Question 17

The location under ground on the fault plane where movement occurs is the

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focus

Question 18

The middle mantle, where convection currents occur, is also known as the

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asthenosphere

Question 19

What type of boundary is illustrated by the diagram?

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divergent

Question 20

A number of rigid, but moving pieces of the Earth's surface that are outlined by earthquakes...

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lithospheric plates

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