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Earth Science Test review # platetectonics
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1
Describe geologic history of NC, parts formed 1st, affected by sea level & final to develop
Barrier Islands, Sandhills
Coastal Plain...underwater several times
Mountains (under Appalachians, Piedmont & Coastal Plain)
All the above
2
What are the forms and locations of transform boundaries?
Rift Valley....Great Rift Valley of Africa
Fault Zones (Earthquakes)...San Adreas Fault
3
The surface features created when two plates converge is mostly determined by the
temperature of the crust
density and thickness of the crust
the core, not the crust
magnetism of the crust
4
A collision between a continental plate and an oceanic plate is most likely to produce
volcanic mountains
hot spots
dome mountains
mountain ranges
5
Seafloor spreading occurs at
terrane boundaries
divergent boundary
subduction zones
transform fault
6
What are the features and locations of Continental-Continental Convergence?
trench, volcanic islands...Great rift Valley of Africa
mountain ranges...The Alps, Mt. Everest
7
The best place to see sea-floor spreading at a divergent boundary is
Hawaii
Alaska
Iceland
North Carolina
8
Which of the following may result from one plate running into another?
divergent boundary
convergent boundary
rift valley
transform fault boundary
9
What are the forms and locations of Continental-Continental Divergences?
Mountain ranges...Alps & Mt. Everest
Rift Valley....Great Rift Valley of Africa
10
What are the features and locations for Continental-Oceanic Convergence?
trenches, volcanic mountains....Andes, Cascades
rift valley, mid-ocean ridge....Iceland, Mid-Atlantic Ridge
11
Seafloor spreading occurs at which of the following plate boundaries?
convergent boundary
subduction zones
divergent boundary
transform fault
12
Which scientist 1st proposed that the continents were once joined and formed Pangea?
Trump
Suess
Heinz
Wegener
13
The Great Rift Valley of the Red Sea in Africa is an example of
subduction zone
convergent boundary
divergent boundary
transform fault
14
What are the features and locations of Oceanic-Oceanic Convergence?
Rift valley...Great Rift Valley of Africa
Trench, volcanic islands...Marianas & Aleutian Islands
15
What are the features and locations of Oceanic-Oceanic Divergence?
Rift valley, mid-ocean ridge...Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Iceland
Fault zones (earthquakes)...San Andreas Fault
16
The layer of the mantle that flows under pressure is called the
crust
lithosphere
hydrosphere
asthenosphere
17
Where do the convection currents that move the plates occur?
hydrosphere
crust
asthenosphere
lithosphere
18
The property of a material to be solid but yet flexible enough for currents to flow is called
plasticity
none of these...a solid can't be flexible
rigidity
blandness
