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Plate Tectonics
Test Description: Plate boundaries
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) Transform plate boundaries create strong _____.
A
mountains
B
earthquakes
C
volcanoes
D
faults
2) Volcanic arcs are formed along which type of plate boundary?
A
All of these
B
Convergent Boundary
C
Transform Boundary
D
Divergent Boundary
3) What do you call the process or driving force that makes plates move?
A
None of these
B
Convection
C
Uplift
D
Subduction
4) What do you call the solid layer with plasticity in the upper mantle that is located just below the lithosphere?
A
Crust
B
Mantle
C
Lithosphere
D
Asthenosphere
5) Which among the following type of plate boundaries results to the formation of the Mid-Ocean ridge?
A
Divergent Boundary
B
Convergent Boundary
C
Transform Boundary
D
All of these
6) Which among the following type of plate boundaries results to the formation of the San Andreas Fault?
A
Divergent Boundary
B
Transform Boundary
C
Convergent Boundary
D
All of these
7) Which among the following type of plate boundaries results to Mountain formation?
A
Divergent Boundary
B
Convergent Boundary
C
Transform Boundary
D
Convergent Boundary
8) The giant landmass where all continents were connected
A
Gondwana
B
Pangaea
C
Pandwana
D
Laurasia
9) Hot magma ______ and cool magma _______.
A
sinks; rises
B
d) rises and sinks; only sinks
C
rises; rises
D
rises; sinks
10) This process makes new crust at the bottom of the ocean at a divergent boundary
A
Mid-Atlantic Ridge
B
subduction
C
seafloor spreading
D
hotspot
11) The Hawaiian Islands are an example
A
convergent boundary
B
transform boundary
C
vacation destination
D
hotspot
12) The border between two tectonic plates
A
border
B
boundary
C
fault
D
joint
13) Oceanic crust near the mid-ocean ridge is ___________ than oceanic crust farther away from the ridge. a) younger
A
younger
B
the same
C
harder
D
older
14) A rift valley forms at a
A
deep-ocean trench
B
divergent plate boundary
C
convergent plate boundary
D
transform boundary
15) Any trace of an ancient organism that has been preserved in rock is called a
A
landmass
B
fossil
C
continent
D
landform
16) The process by which the ocean floor sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle is known as
A
convection
B
subduction
C
conduction
D
continental drift
17) The geological theory that states that pieces of Earth's lithosphere are in constant, slow motion is the theory of
A
plate tectonics
B
deep-ocean trenches
C
sea-floor spreading
D
subduction
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