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Duplicate of Plate Tectonics
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Plate Tectonics review questions #platetectonics
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1
Volcanic island arcs form at
subduction zones
transform zones
divergent zones
2
Sixty percent of volcanoes occur surrounding the Pacific Ocean, a location called
"Mordor"
"the Ring of Fire"
"the hot zone"
"the Volcano Zone"
3
Wegener's Theory of Continental Drift was replaced by the Theory of
plate tectonics
paleomorfism
crustal forces
paleomagnetism
4
What landforms are produced when tectonic plates move across the Earth's mantle?
volcanos
mountains
ocean basins
all of the above
5
Tectonic plates float on the...
Atmosphere
Hydrosphere
Lithosphere
Asthenosphere
6
Along which two plates do we see major earthquake activity?
Pacific and Eurasian/Indian
Pacific and North/South American
South American and Nazca
7
What happens to rock around a subducting plate?
It combines with the other rock.
It disappears from Earth.
It passes under the other plate
It passess over the other plate.
8
The tectonic plates at a divergent plate boundary.....
converge
slide along each other
move away from each other
move toward each other
9
Wegener used all these lines of evidence, except
climate change evidence
Humans living on all continents of the earth
the fit of the continents
Fossil evidence
10
What do scientists believe is the force behind the Theory of Plate Tectonics?
convection currents
the movement of the planets
gravity slab pull
the Sun's gravity
11
Name the tectonic plate boundary in the picture
transform/translation boundary
divergent boundary
convergent boundary
12
Only the continents are considered part of the lithosphere.
False
True
13
Name the scientist who proposed the Theory of Continental Drift
David Attenborough
Alfred Wegener
Albert Einstein
Charles Darwin
14
Volcanos form at convergent boundaries at subduction zones
True
False