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Plate Tectonics Test Review Game
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1
What plate movement forms a rift valley?
Subducting plates
Hot Spots
Convergent boundaries
Divergent plates
2
Which scientist came up with the theory of Pangaea?
Harry Hess
Alfred Wegener
Albert Einstein
J Tuzo Wilson
3
What are convergent plate boundaries?
Plates the move together
Plates that move apart
Plates that don't move around at all
Plates that move past each other
4
What forms when an oceanic plate subducts?
Trench and volcano
Rift valley
Mountain
Mid ocean ridge
5
What type of plate boundary is this?
Seafloor Spreading
Convergent
Transform
Divergent
6
Magma with no silica or gases will have what kind of eruption?
Explosive
Quiet
7
Mountain ranges, like the Himalayas are the result of...
hot spots.
continental-continental convergence
continental volcanic arcs.
Oceanic-oceanic convergence
8
What are transform plate boundaries?
Plates that slide past each other
Plates that move apart
Plates that move together
Plates that don't move at all
9
How many cities do you need in order to find an earthquakes epicenter?
2
1
3
4
10
When an ocean and continent converge, which subducts?
Continental plate
Oceanic plate
11
What is the lithosphere???
crust and upper mantle of Earth
moveable middle layer of earth
continent submerged under shelf sea
rigid lower layer of the mantle
12
Which seismic wave causes the most damage?
Surface waves
P waves
S waves
13
Who discovered seafloor spreading?
J Tuzo Wilson
Alfred Wegener
Harry Hess
Albert Einstien
14
The collapse of the top of a volcano, creating a large depression is what?
Caldera
Volcanic neck
Batholith
Crater
15
What type of Plate Boundary is this?
Convergent
Divergent
Reverse
Transform
16
How long can an earthquake last?
Weeks
Hours
Minutes
Days
17
Which one of the Earth's layers is the thinnest?
outer core
crust
mantle
inner core
18
What are the 4 layers of the Earth...?
crust, mantle, ocean, continent
outer core, water, mantle, core
inner core, outer core, mantle, crust
lava, fire, water, land,
19
Which layer of Earth is a liquid?
Outer Core
Mantle
Inner Core
Crust
20
What causes plate tectonics?
Convection currents in the mantle
Earth's rotation
Ocean currents
Sun's gravity
21
How did the islands of Hawaii form?
Hot spot
Divergent in ocean
Convergent ocean/continent
Convergent ocean/ocean
22
What are the inner and outer cores made out of?
Basalt and Granite
Hydrogen and Helium
Iron and Nickel
Magnesium and Oxygen
23
What type of rock is continental crust made out of?
Basalt
Pumice
Granite
Quartz
24
What is the Asthenosphere?
A movable layer of the middle mantle
The liquid layer of Earth
Crust and upper mantle
The strong lower part of the mantle
25
How do we know the outer core is liquid?
Scientists drilled down there
P waves don't go through it
S waves don't go through it
P and S waves both go through it
26
What type of plate movement does the diagram represent?
Convergent (continental to continental)
Transform
Convergent (oceanic to oceanicl)
Divergent
27
The cloud of hot ash, rocks, and gasses flowing down the volcano at a high speed is what?
Lava
Pyroclastic Flow
Basaltic lava
Ash cloud
28
What does the Modified Mercalli Scale measure?
How long an earthquake lasted
Earthquake damage
The weather forecast
How much energy an earthquake had
29
Seafloor spreading occurs at _________ plate boundaries?
Transform
Divergent
Convergent
Subduction
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Where are the youngest rocks in the oceans?
In trenches
It is all the same age
Far away from a mid ocean ridge
Middle of a mid ocean ridge
