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Plate Tectonics Review
Plate Tectonics Review
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Student will review boundaries, features and evidences for plate tectonics.
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The idea that continents have slowly moved to their current locations is called....
continental slope
magnetic reversal
continental drift
convection
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Where is a divergent boundary?
S. American Plate & Nazca Plate
S. American & Nazca
N. American & Pacific Plate
S. American & African Plate
3
What features form on point B?
trench
all of the above
mountains
volcanoes
4
The type of boundary that forms at a subduction zone is...
hot spot
divergent
convergent
transform
5
Where is a convergent boundary?
S. American & African Plate
S. American Plate & Nazca Plate
N. American & Eurasian
N. American & Pacific Plate
6
The boundary between two plates moving together result in...
hot spots
old ocean floor
trenches
mid-ocean ridge
7
Which of the following is evidence of seafloor spreading?
magnetic pole reversals
rock layers in the ocean
climate records
fossils of extinct animals
8
What type of boundary is forming at point A in this diagram?
divergent
hot spot
convergent
transform
9
The crust and upper mantle make up Earth's...
asthenosphere
lithosphere
continents
core
10
Continental drift is support by the presence of the same ____________ on several continents.
all choices
puzzle like shapes
mountain ranges
fossils
11
Old ocean floor melts at ...
subduction zones
magnetic poles
mid-ocean ridges
hot spots
12
The type of stress at a convergent boundary is
shearing
tension
hot spot
compression
13
Where is a transform boundary?
S. American & African Plate
N. American & Pacific Plate
N. American & Eurasian
S. American Plate & Nazca Plate
14
Mid-ocean ridges form at..
transform boundaries
hot spots
divergent boundaries
convergent boundaries
15
What process is shown by the arrows in this diagram?
radioactive decay
convection
subduction
sea-floor spreading
16
The youngest rocks on the ocean floor are located...
on the north and south poles
at mid-ocean ridges
near continents
near volcanoes
17
Plates slide past each other resulting in ...
earthquakes
hot spots
volcanoes
mountains
18
Magnetic reversals, island arcs, trenches, and mid-ocean ridges are evidences of...
plate tectonics
seafloor spreading
radioactive decay
continental drift
19
What features form on point A?
mid-ocean ridge
trench
hot spot
old ocean floor
20
Plate motion is caused by...
radioactive decay
convection
fusion
subduction
21
Plates move apart at _________________boundaries.
convergent
hot spot
divergent
transform
22
Wegener felt fossils, mountain ranges and puzzle like shapes of land masses were evidence of...
Magnetic Reversal
Continental Drift
Plate Tectonics
Sea-floor Spreading
23
What type of boundary is forming at point B in this diagram?
hot spot
convergent
transform
divergent
24
The name of the supercontinent formed is...
Pangaea
Laurasia
Kiliua
Gondwanaland
25
This diagram shows a...
convection current
mid-ocean ridge
hot spot
rift valley
