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Plate Tectonics
Test Description: Questions are based on Texas 8th grade Science standards.
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) The theory of _________________________ states the Earth's crust and upper mantle are broken into sections.
A
Theory of Continental Plowing
B
Theory of Wandering Continents
C
Theory of Static Plates
D
Theory of Plate Tectonics
2) What type of plate boundary would form folded mountains?
A
Transform
B
Divergents
C
Convergent
D
Subduction (convergent)
3) What type of plate boundary would form mid-oceanic ridges and rift valleys?
A
Convergent
B
Subduction (convergent)
C
Divergent
D
Transform
4) What type of boundary would form volcanoes and trenches?
A
Transform
B
Divergent
C
Convergent
D
Subduction (convergent)
5) Why type of plate boundary would form a strike slip fault?
A
Divergent
B
Subduction (convergent)
C
Convergent
D
Transform
6) Earth's continents were once joined as one large landmass. What was this landmass called?
A
Eurasia
B
Pacifica
C
Indo-Australia
D
Pangaea
7) Volcanic island arcs are associated with which of the following boundaries?
A
Oceanic-Oceanic
B
Continental-Oceanic
C
Continental-Continental
D
Oceanic-Continental
8) Divergent boundaries are characterized by what type of movement to the Earth's crust?
A
Moves apart
B
Slides past
C
Moves together
D
Collision
9) Convergent boundaries, including subduction boundaries, are characterized by what type of movement to the Earth's crust?
A
Collision
B
Moves apart
C
Shearing
D
Slides past
10) The observation that continents fit together like puzzle pieces, and may have once been connected, led Alfred Wegener to propose a theory in 1910 called
A
Theory of Wandering Continents
B
Theory of Continental Plowing
C
Theory of Continental Drift
D
Theory of Plate Tectonics
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