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Chapter 14 Review - Plate Tectonics
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Review for Chapter 14 - Plate Tectonics
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What is name of the scientist responsible for the theory of continental drift?
Harry Hess
Alfred Wegener
2
The boundary between two plates moving together is called a __________
Transform Boundary
Divergent Boundary
Convergent Boundary
3
T/F - All plate boundaries create volcanoes
False
True
4
What causes tectonic plates to move?
Pulling on one another
Convection currents
Gravity pulls the plates
5
Which plate boundary will not generate magma?
Converging
Transform
Diverging
6
What are transform plate boundaries?
Plates that don't move at all
Plates that move apart
Plates that move past each other
Plates that move together
7
Plates of the crust float on the...
lithosphere
core
mantle
atmosphere
8
The scientific community accepted Wegener's theory immediately.
False
True
9
Which plate type is more dense?
Continental
Oceanic
10
Convection currents causes
Warm fluids to rise because it's less dense.
Cold and hot fluid to rise.
Warm and cold fluids to sink.
Cool fluids to sink because it's more dense.
11
Oceanic crust is..
thinner and more dense
thicker and more dense
thinner and less dense
thicker and less dense
12
_________ are formed when two continental plates converge
Volcanoes
Rift Valleys
Mountain Ranges
Strike-slip faults
13
Transform plate boundaries...
Are when two plates collide
Move away from each other
Slide or glide past each other
Form mid-ocean ridges
14
What is the mantle made up of?
Magma
Plastic
Dirt
Rock
15
Plates slide past one another at....
Convection Zones
Transform Boundaries
Divergent Boundaries
Subduction zones
16
What are the three main types of plate boundaries?
Converge,collide,create
converging,diverging,transform
Diverge,divide,dilute
subduction,diverging, magma
17
What type of plate boundary?
Divergent
Transform
Convergent
18
Which plate type is older?
Continental
Oceanic
19
What is formed from two continental crusts converging?
Earthquakes
Rift Valley
Volcanoes
Folded mountains
20
What kind of boundary will create a rift valley?
Converging
Diverging
Transform
21
What is a subduction zone
A type of volcano
a fault
volcanoes have not erupted in recorded history
oceanic plate slides under the continental plate.
22
Plates move apart at __________ boundaries.
transform
divergent
stable
convergent
23
Which is an example of a transform boundary?
Appalacian Mountains
Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Himalayas
San Andreas Fault
24
What can a transform boundary cause?
Earthquakes
Folded mountains
Rift Valley
Volcanic arc of islands
25
What boundary will create folded mountains?
Diverging
Converging
Transform
26
What type of boundary?
Transform
Divergent
Convergent
27
Active volcanoes are most likely to form at __________
Convergent oceanic-continental boundaries
Transform Boundaries
Divergent Boundaries
The center of continents
28
What is the name of the scientist responsible for the theory of seafloor spreading?
Alfred Wegener
Harry Hess
29
The hypothesis that continents have slowly moved to their current location
continental drift
magnetic reversal
continental slope
convection
30
The Himalayan mountains were caused by...
Converging boundaries
Transform boundaries
Diverging boundaries
31
The San Andreas Fault is an example of what?
Diverging boundary
Convection currents
Transform boundary
Converging boundary
32
__________ currents inside Earth might drive plate motion
Vertical
Ocean
Horizontal
Convection
33
What are convergent plate boundaries?
Plates that don't move around at all
Plates that move apart
Plates that move past each other
Plates the move toward one another
34
Two continental crusts diverge to create a.....
Earthquake
Folded mountain
Rift Valley
Volcano
35
The massive collection of volcanoes around the Pacific is known as the...
Danger Zone
Convection Cycle
Plate Boundary
Ring of Fire
36
Matching _________ on different continents are evidence for continental drift
wind systems
river systems
Fossils
weather patterns
37
Two oceanic crusts diverge to create a....
Rift Valley
Folded mountain
Volcanic arc of islands
Mid-ocean ridge
38
At one point in the past, evidence shows that continents were together in a supercontinent called...
Wegener
Pangaea
Glomar
Glossopteris
39
What type of boundary?
Convergent
Transform
Divergent
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Which plate type is thinner?
Continental
Oceanic
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Wegener saw that the continents fit together like pieces of a puzzle.
False
True
