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Plate Tectonics Review
Plate Tectonics Review
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Student will review boundaries, features and evidences for plate tectonics.
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Magnetic reversals, island arcs, trenches, and mid-ocean ridges are evidences of...
seafloor spreading
plate tectonics
continental drift
radioactive decay
2
Where is a divergent boundary?
N. American & Pacific Plate
S. American & Nazca
S. American Plate & Nazca Plate
S. American & African Plate
3
The type of boundary that forms at a subduction zone is...
hot spot
divergent
convergent
transform
4
Where is a convergent boundary?
S. American Plate & Nazca Plate
N. American & Eurasian
N. American & Pacific Plate
S. American & African Plate
5
The youngest rocks on the ocean floor are located...
near continents
near volcanoes
at mid-ocean ridges
on the north and south poles
6
Mid-ocean ridges form at..
divergent boundaries
convergent boundaries
transform boundaries
hot spots
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What process is shown by the arrows in this diagram?
subduction
convection
radioactive decay
sea-floor spreading
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What type of boundary is forming at point A in this diagram?
convergent
divergent
hot spot
transform
9
The type of stress at a convergent boundary is
hot spot
tension
shearing
compression
10
Old ocean floor melts at ...
hot spots
mid-ocean ridges
magnetic poles
subduction zones
11
What type of boundary is forming at point B in this diagram?
transform
hot spot
convergent
divergent
12
What features form on point B?
all of the above
trench
volcanoes
mountains
13
Wegener felt fossils, mountain ranges and puzzle like shapes of land masses were evidence of...
Sea-floor Spreading
Plate Tectonics
Magnetic Reversal
Continental Drift
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Continental drift is support by the presence of the same ____________ on several continents.
puzzle like shapes
all choices
fossils
mountain ranges
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What features form on point A?
old ocean floor
hot spot
trench
mid-ocean ridge
16
Which of the following is evidence of seafloor spreading?
climate records
magnetic pole reversals
fossils of extinct animals
rock layers in the ocean
17
Where is a transform boundary?
N. American & Pacific Plate
S. American & African Plate
S. American Plate & Nazca Plate
N. American & Eurasian
18
Plate motion is caused by...
subduction
fusion
radioactive decay
convection
19
The name of the supercontinent formed is...
Gondwanaland
Pangaea
Laurasia
Kiliua
20
This diagram shows a...
hot spot
mid-ocean ridge
rift valley
convection current
21
The idea that continents have slowly moved to their current locations is called....
magnetic reversal
continental slope
convection
continental drift
22
The boundary between two plates moving together result in...
old ocean floor
hot spots
mid-ocean ridge
trenches
23
Plates move apart at _________________boundaries.
transform
convergent
hot spot
divergent
24
The crust and upper mantle make up Earth's...
core
asthenosphere
continents
lithosphere
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Plates slide past each other resulting in ...
earthquakes
hot spots
volcanoes
mountains
