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Chap 9
Test Description: Plate Tectonics
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) New ocean crust is formed at
A
divergent boundaries
B
transform fault boundaries
C
convergent boundaries
D
continental volcanic arcs
2) Which of the followign results when divergence occurs between two oceanic plates
A
an ocean trench
B
a volcanic island arc
C
sea floor spreading
D
a subduction zone
3) What forms when one oceanic plate is forced beneeath another plate
A
a subduction zone
B
an ocean ridge
C
an ocean basin
D
a rift valley
4) Deep ocean trenches are associated iwth
A
subduction zones
B
rift zones
C
transform fault boundaries
D
ocean ridge systems
5) Oceanic lithosphere is destroyed at
A
convergent boundaries
B
ocean ridges
C
transform fault boundaries
D
divergent boundaries
6) The Himalayas in South Asia are an example of what type of plate boundary
A
transform fault boundary
B
convergent oceanic-continental boundary
C
divergent boundary
D
convergent continental-continental boundary
7) Volcanic island arcs are associated with what type of plate boundary?
A
convergent continental-continental boundary
B
convergent oceanic-oceanic boundary
C
divergent boundary
D
convergent continental-oceanic boundary
8) At a transofrm fault boundary
A
oceanic lithosphere is destroyed
B
new continental crust is formed
C
new oceanic crust is formed
D
lithosphere is neither destroyed or produced
9) According to the property of paleomagnetism
A
rocks do not possess magnetic properties
B
iron rich rocks show the location of the magnetic poles at the time of their formation
C
all rocks have a reversed polarity
D
all rocks, regardless of when they are formed, have the same polarity
10) Strips of alternating magnetic polarities found in roccks in the ocean basins
A
provide evidence of seafloor spreading
B
provide evidence that Earths magnetic field
C
indicate changes in Earth's gravitation field
D
conflict with the theory of plate tectonics
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