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Plate Tectonics
Test Description: Test on Plate Tectonics
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) How fast do plates move relative to each other?
A
meters per year
B
centimeters per year
C
centimeters per day
D
millimeters per day
2) Which area is surrounded by the ring of fire?
A
The United States
B
The Atlantic Ocean
C
The Pacific Ocean
D
The Mediterrenean Sea
3) What causes the magma to rise upward in a mantle plume?
A
The magma is pulled upward by the air pressure
B
the magma is denser than the surrounding material
C
The magma is pushed upward by the surrounding rock
D
The magma is less dense than the surrounding material
4) Which type of volcanism produces the most lava annually?
A
divergent
B
convergent
C
hot spot
D
cinder cones
5) Which evidence was not used by Wegener to support his hypothesis of continental drift?
A
glacial deposits
B
coal beds in America
C
paleomagnetic data
D
fossils of land-dwelling anumals
6) What is the name for the constant production of new ocean floor?
A
subduction
B
hot spot
C
seafloor spreading
D
continental drift
7) The weight of a subducting plate helps pull the trailing lithosphere into a subduction zone in which process?
A
slab push
B
slab pull
C
ridge push
D
ridge pull
8) What is stress?
A
point at which rocks fail and generate an earthquake
B
force per unit area
C
measure of the deformation of rocks
D
speed seismic waves travel
9) What can the difference in travel times between P and S-waves be used to determine?
A
whether the core is liquid
B
the depth of the earthquake
C
the type of fault
D
how far away the epicenter was
10) Which seismic hazard is a form of structural failure?
A
seismic gap
B
tsunami
C
pancaking
D
soil liquefaction
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