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Duplicate of chapter 10 Plate Tectonics
Duplicate of chapter 10 Plate Tectonics
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Follows PPS 8th grade assessment for Plate tectonics
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1
Which is an example of an island arc formed by subducting plate boundary?
Mackinac island
Alaska's Aleutian islands
Gilligan's island
Hawaiian islands
2
In which location are the crust layers the densest?
At the mountains
At ocean floor
There's no difference
At continents
3
Tracking major quakes and volcanoes, we can map The________ _______ of ______
Atlantic Ring of Fire
Indian Ring of Danger
Pacific Ring of Fire
Pacific Square of Pain
4
What type of boundary is this?
Transform
Divergent
Red Zone
Convergent
5
Volcanoes are found at _______
Hot spots
Convergent boundaries
Divergent boundaries
ALL of these
6
The Andes Mountains in South America are volcanic because...
Ridge push at a divergent boundary
Subduction at convergent plates
Weak lithosphere at hot spot
Transform plate movement
7
What type of boundary is shown in the diagram?
Transform
Divergent
Convergent
Out of
8
What is responsible for the stripe-like appearance of rocks on ocean floor
temperature of rock
age of rocks
magnetic reversal
density of the rocks
9
What type of boundary is shown in the diagram?
Convergent
Mexican
Divergent
Transform
10
Seafloor spreading occurs because of convection in which layer?
Lithosphere
Asthenosphere
Inner core
Outer core
11
Alfred Wegener believed all the continents were once joined in a super continent called __
Gonwandwana
Pangaea
BigOLand
Laurasia
12
A long underwater mountain chain that has steep narrow valley at its ceter
Deep Ocean trench
Island arc
paleomagetic core
Mid-ocean ridge
13
Where one oceanic plate slide beneath another plate at a subduction zone, what can occur?
Volcanic mountains `
Deep Ocean trench
All of these
Earthquakes
14
This diagram of the Hawaiian islands is a good example of ______
Hot Spot
Divergent plates
Transform plates
Convergent plates
15
Plates that pull away from one another = _____ boundaries
Canadian
Convergent
Divergent
Transform
16
What was the name of Alfred Wegener's hypothesis?
Continental Drift
Pangaea
Super Continent
Plate tectonics
17
Plates sliding past one another = ________ boundary
Convergent
Divergent
Transform
Ridge
18
Where do deep ocean trenches form?
convergent boundary
divergent boundary
hot spots
transform boundary
19
Plates that collide and press into one another form ______ boundaries.
Transform
Trench
Divergent
Convergent
20
The age of the oceanic crust proves that at the mid ocean ridge the plates move
Toward one another
Away from one another
Are motionless in position
Slide past one another
21
The crust is a thin, rigid layer that forms the outermost part of the
Mantle
Asthenosphere
Lithosphere
Core
22
Which was NOT a clue Wegener used to support his hypothesis?
Rock clues
Fossil Evidence
Climate Evidence
Convection currents
23
Deep ocean trenches are formed at _________
Subduction zones
continent-continent collision
Mid-ocean ridges
hot spots
24
Who is this?
Woodrow Wilson
Alfred E. Neuman
Alfred Wegener
Winston Churchill
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What does this image demonstrate?
Symmetry of magnetic reversals
Density differences
Bar codes
Highways lanes
