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Plate Tectonics Review
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What do earthquakes and volcanoes have in common?
Earthquakes and volcanoes both cause tsunamis.
There are three types of each.
They both occur most often at tectonic plate boundaries.
Both earthquakes and volcanoes occur regularly in Florida.
2
About 245 million years ago the continents were joined in a single large landmass known as ___.
Laurasia
Panthalassa
Pangaea
Gondwana
3
Each whole number on the earthquake magnitude scale represents a ___ X increase in energy.
10
2
10,000
100
4
What happens in a convection current?
Rock material melts and moves toward Earth’s core.
Heated material sinks and cooler material rises.
Heated material rises and cooler material sinks.
Rock material hardens and becomes part of Earth’s mantle.
5
The "Ring of Fire" includes most of Earth's active volcanoes. What ocean does it circle?
Atlantic Ocean
Arctic Ocean
Indian Ocean
Pacific Ocean
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How can volcanoes form in the middle of a tectonic plate?
The heat that formed the volcanoes came from above the plate.
They can form along a hot spot, a very hot part of the mantle.
Some plates give off more heat than others.
Volcanoes can form because a mountain was located above them.
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What are the 3 types of mountains?
tension, compression, and volcanic
compression, tension, and shear-stress
volcanic, folded, and fault-block
hot spot, convergent, and strike-slip
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What are the 3 types of Tectonic Plate boundaries?
Colliding, Separating, and Passing
Convergent, Detergent, and Vacuum
Convergent, Divergent, and Transform
Contingent, Continental, and Fault
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What are the 3 types of faults?
Convergent, divergent, and transform
Compression, tension, and magma
Normal, reverse, and strike-slip
My fault, your fault, and nobody's fault
10
Which of the following is NOT one of Earth's tectonic plates?
China Plate
Nazca Plate
North American Plate
African Plate
11
Who was responsible for developing the theory of Continental Drift?
Amadeus Mozart
Al Gore
Alfred Wegener
Albert Einstein
12
What happens during a large earthquake?
rapid change to Earth’s crust
rapid change to Earth’s mantle
release of magma from Earth’s interior
gradual change to Earth's crrust
13
In which layer of Earth are the convection currents found?
inner core
crust
outer core
mantle
14
The San Andreas fault runs through which american state?
Florida
Alaska
California
Hawaii
15
3 types of volcanoes are __, __, and __.
shield, cinder cone, and composite
shield, snow cone, and composite
shield, cinder cone, and convergent
magnanimous, lavalampic, and vulcan
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What is the difference between magma and lava?
lava is orange, magma is magenta
lava is on Earth's surface, magma is within Earth
you can eat lava, but magma is too hard
magma is not as hot as lava
17
A large ocean wave that is caused by an earthquake under water.
Tsunami
Tsimuna
Tsumani
Tsamuni
18
A strike-slip fault would most likely occur at which type of tectonic plate boundary?
reverse
transform
divergent
convergent
19
Folded mountains would be most likely to form at what type of tectonic plate boundary?
divergent
normal
transform
convergent
20
What causes the movement of Earth’s tectonic plates?
Convection of Earth’s upper mantle
Magnetic pole reversals
Energy released from volcanic activity
Large faults in mountain ranges
21
What do we call the release of energy as seismic waves?
an earthquake
a storm surge
a volcanic eruption
a tsunami
22
Which of the following is true about earthquakes?
The focus is above the epicenter.
The epicenter is above the focus.
They tend to happen along convergent plate boundaries.
They tend to happen along divergent plate boundaries.
23
Tectonic plates move toward each other at which type of plate boundary?
Divergent
Transform
Convergent
24
When one tectonic plate slides beneath another at a convergent plate boundary, it is called __.
subduction
sea-floor spreading
a trench
a mid-ocean ridge
