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Plate Tectonics
Test Description: Plate Tectonics Review Game
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) What does Pangaea mean?
A
It is the name of an ancient super-continent.
B
It is the name of an extinct volcano.
C
It is the French word for volcano.
D
It is a huge disruption of the Earth's atmospheric circulation.
2) What type of plate boundary has plates sliding past each other?
A
subduction zones
B
convergent boundaries
C
divergent boundaries
D
transform boundaries
3) When 2 continental plates collide which landform is created?
A
island
B
deep-ocean trench
C
mountains
D
volcano
4) Where is oceanic crust destroyed?
A
mid-ocean ridges
B
divergent plate boundaries
C
transform plate boundaries
D
deep-ocean trenches
5) Which of the following is not considered a result of the movement of tectonic plates?
A
Earthquakes
B
mountain ranges
C
volcanoes
D
hurricanes
6) Of the following statements, which best supports the continent drift theory?
A
Early humans migrated to North America over a land bridge from eastern Asia.
B
Fossils of the same species have been found in both South America and Africa.
C
Fossils of sames species have been found in Africa and Canada
D
Igneous rock are found on all continents.
7) The Marianas Trench in the Pacific Ocean is 36,160 feet below sea level. This deep-oceanic trench is caused by
A
excessive boat traffic disrupting the normal sedimentation process
B
the collapse of an empty magma chamber in a large volcano.
C
two tectonic plates colliding and one plunging below the other.
D
swift ocean currents eroding away the ocean floor.
8) When the sea floor spreads apart, volcanoes and ridges are formed because
A
the weight of ocean water pushes down on the surrounding sea floor, pushing up ridges.
B
sediments are deposited where the floor spreads, building ridges.
C
as the plates pull apart, magma moves to the surface, building ridges.
D
underwater earthquakes lift the sea floor into long ridges.
9) What process occurs when two plates run together, and one plate slips beneath the other?
A
subduction
B
transformation
C
divergence
D
convection
10) Sediment close to the mid-ocean ridge is ____ than sediment farther away.
A
older
B
younger
C
smaller
D
bigger
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