A Tropical Alberta Test

Question 1

Which layer of Earth is involved in plate tectonics?

Accepted Answer

Mantle

Question 2

Which feature suggests continents were once connected?

Accepted Answer

Fossil similarities

Question 3

What happens when energy is released in an earthquake?

Accepted Answer

Ground shaking

Question 4

What geological feature is formed by sea-floor spreading?

Accepted Answer

Ridge

Question 5

True or false: Alberta was underwater during the Paleozoic Era.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 6

True or false: The Cambrian Explosion was a major event.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 7

What causes sea-floor spreading?

Accepted Answer

Tectonic plate movement

Question 8

What is the average time between major earthquakes?

Accepted Answer

500 years

Question 9

Which geological process occurs at ocean trenches?

Accepted Answer

Subduction

Question 10

Which event occurred in 1700?

Accepted Answer

Cascadia Megathrust Earthquake

Question 11

What type of seismic wave arrives first?

Accepted Answer

P-waves

Question 12

True or false: Fossils can be used to date rocks.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 13

What is a key feature of the Pacific Plate?

Accepted Answer

Subduction zones

Question 14

Which supercontinent existed in the Mesozoic Era?

Accepted Answer

Pangaea

Question 15

True or false: Seismology helps find underground structures.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 16

What is the Burgess Shale known for?

Accepted Answer

Underwater mudslide fossils

Question 17

True or false: The Richter scale measures earthquake magnitude.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 18

True or false: The Juan de Fuca Plate is moving southeast.

Accepted Answer

False

Questions 18