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Review of Plate Tectonics
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1
What geologic feature is formed as plates #3 & #4
spread
apart
from plates #1 & #2?
East Pacific Rise
Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Hawaiian Islands chain
African Rift Valley
2
What features form at an
Oceanic-Oceanic
Convergent
plate boundary?
Trenches & Volcanic Islands
Strike-Slip Faults
Volcanic Mountains
Trenches & High Mountain Ranges
3
At transform plate boundaries.....
The plates collide
None of the above
The plates slide past each other
The plates divide
4
Convection currents in the mantle are caused by differences in what?
Temperature and Density
Composition
Size
Mass
5
This picture is an example of what kind of plate boundary?
Collision
Convergent
Transform
Divergent
6
What process is happening at this convergent boundary?
Subduction
Hot Spot
Transform fault
Seafloor Spreading
7
What is the name of the tectonic plate
#9
?
African
Australian
Phillipine
Indian
8
Scientists think movement of tectonic plates is caused by which of the following processes?
None of these
Convection Currents
GPS
Radiation
9
What features form at a
Transform
plate boundary?
High Mountain Ranges
Strike-Slip Faults
Volcanoes & Trenches
Ridges, Rises, & Rift Valleys
10
The thinnest layer of the Earth is the:
Outer Core
Mantle
Crust
Inner Core
11
What is the name of the tectonic plate
#10
?
Juan De Fuca
Scotia
Pacific
Nazca
12
What is the name of the tectonic plate
#6
?
African
Pacific
Antarctic
Australian
13
This theory states that the continents once formed a single landmass then broke apart:
Continental Drift
Lithosphere Displacement
Plate Movement
Laurasia
14
What geologic feature is formed as plate #9
collides
into plate #2?
Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Himalaya Mountains
San Andreas Fault
Mariana Trench
15
At Mid-Ocean Ridges. . . . .
tectonic plates are colliding.
sea-floor spreading occurs.
oceanic lithosphere is destroyed.
the crust is older.
16
The scientist who came up with the Theory of Continental Drift was .......
Alfred Wegener
Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Nobel
Alfred Marshall
17
This picture is an example of what kind of plate boundary?
Divergent
Transform
Convergent
Breakage
18
What features form at a
Continent-Continent
Convergent
plate boundary?
Volcanoes & Trenches
High Mountain Ranges
Strike-Slip Faults
Mid-Ocean Ridges
19
What plate boundaries are responsible for earthquakes?
Convergent
All of them
Transform
Divergent
20
The picture is an example of what kind of plate boundary?
Transform
Divergent
Uplifting
Convergent
21
What geologic feature is formed as plate #10
subducts
under plate #4?
Andes Mountains
Mount St. Helens (Cascade Mountains)
San Andreas Fault
Yellowstone Hot Spot
22
What are the two different types of crust?
Pangaea/Gondwana
Nazca/Eurasian
Continental/Oceanic
Lithosphere/Asthenosphere
23
Continents were once joined together in a single large landmass called:
Panthalassa
Pangaea
Gondwana
Laurasia
24
Convection currents occur in the ____________.
Atmosphere
Mantle
Asthenosphere
Inner Core
25
What features form at a
Divergent
plate boundary?
Strike-Slip Faults
Ridges, Rises, and Rift Valleys
High Mountain Ranges
Volcanoes & Trenches
26
Which type of crust is more
dense
?
Antarctic
M.O.R.s
Continental
Oceanic
27
What features form at an
Continental-Oceanic
Convergent
plate boundary?
Ridges, Rises, & Rift Valleys
Trenches & Volcanic Mountains
Strike-Slip Faults
Volcanic Islands
28
What is the name of the tectonic plate
#2
?
Antarctic
Pacific
North American
Eurasian
29
What is the name of the tectonic plate
#3
?
African
North American
Nazca
South American
30
What natural disasters occur because of plate movement?
Earthquakes and Volcanoes
Earthquakes and Hurricanes
Hurricanes
Volcanoes and Tornados
