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Plate Tectonics
Test Description: Review of Plate Tectonics
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) The youngest rocks on the ocean floor are typically located near what feature?
A
An abyssal plain
B
A subduction trench
C
A continental shelf
D
Mid-ocean ridge
2) Which landform would most likely be created when two oceanic plates converge?
A
A huge watershed area
B
A chain of continental mountains
C
A smooth continental shelf
D
A volcanic island arc
3) Which feature would most likely be forming at converging continental tectonic plate boundaries?
A
Volcanic cone
B
Uplifted mountain
C
Deep trench
D
Rift valley
4) Which of the following is the best evidence that Earth's continents were once in very different positions than they are today?
A
Volcanoes encircle the Pacific Ocean
B
Fossils of tropical plants are found in Antarctica
C
Major rivers form deltas from continental erosion
D
Penguins are found only in the Southern Hemisphere
5) A rift valley is evidence of which kind of plate boundary?
A
Transform
B
Convergent
C
Uniform
D
Divergent
6) Which of the following is most responsible for the formation of new crust at the edge of a tectonic plate?
A
Mountain building at a continent-continent convergent boundary
B
Magma rising up from the mantle at a divergent boundary
C
Two tectonic plates sliding past each other at a transform boundary
D
Subduction of one oceanic plate under another at a convergent boundary
7) What will happen when an oceanic plate collides with a continental plate?
A
The two plates will converge making mountains
B
The denser oceanic plate will subduct under the less dense continental plate
C
The denser continental plate will subduct under the less dense oceanic plate
D
The less dense oceanic plate will subduct under the more dense continental plate
8) A huge land mass that existed about 245 million years ago.
A
Eurasia
B
Laurasia
C
Continental drift
D
Pangaea
9) They hypothesis that the continents were once together in a large landmass and drifted apart to their current location is known as...
A
Plate tectonics
B
Continental Drift
C
Seismology
D
Sea-floor spreading
10) Sea-floor spreading takes place at...
A
Transform boundaries
B
Convergent boundaries
C
Volcanic island arcs
D
Mid-ocean ridges
11) At a transform boundary tectonic plates are...
A
Are being pulled apart
B
Drifting apart
C
Sliding past one another
D
Coming together
12) If you were standing at the very middle of a convergent continental plate boundary where would you be standing?
A
In the ocean
B
On a mountain
C
On a volcano
D
In a rift valley
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