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Plate Tectonics Review
Test Description: Use this to review for the plate tectonics section of your final exam.
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) What are tectonic plates?
A
Mountains
B
Chunks of continents
C
Pieces of Earth’s crust and upper mantle
D
Pieces of metal in the mantle
2) What landform or event is found at a convergent boundary?
A
Mid-ocean ridge
B
Mountain formation
C
Canyon
D
Rift valley
3) How does a transform boundary move AND what does this movement create?
A
Two plates divide creating a rift valley.
B
Two plates collide creating a mountain.
C
Two plates divide creating volcanoes.
D
Two plates slide against each other creating earthquakes.
4) Why is the area that borders the Pacific Ocean called the Ring of Fire?
A
Because it has lots of wild fires
B
Because this is the only place where plates collide.
C
Because many volcanoes and earthquakes occur along this boarder
D
Because it the only place where magma comes up through the Earth’s surface.
5) Which of the following explains how new ocean floor is formed?
A
Sand and other sediment are deposited on the ocean floor.
B
Violent earthquakes shake the old ocean floor to create a new floor.
C
Molten rock rises through the crust and hardens to create ocean floor.
D
Ocean currents erode the old ocean floor
6) why does rock sink when it travels closer to the surface of the earth in a convection current?
A
Because the density is decreasing
B
Because the rotation of Earth pushes it down
C
Because the temperature is decreasing
D
Because the density is increasing
7) According to the theory of plate tectonics, what makes Earth’s tectonic plates move?
A
Gravitational pull of the moon
B
Radiation from Earth’s core
C
Rotation of the Earth on its axis
D
Convection currents in the mantle
8) Most geologists rejected Alfred Wegener’s idea of continental drift because…
A
They were afraid of a new idea.
B
Wegener was interested in what Earth was like millions of years ago.
C
Wegener used several different types of evidence to support his hypothesis.
D
Wegener could not identify how a force could move the continents.
9) Which of the following is evidence that sea-floor spreading occurs?
A
Subduction
B
Fossils
C
Magnetic stripes
D
Climate change
10) Where do most earthquakes and volcanoes occur?
A
The middle of tectonic plates
B
Between the outer core and mantle
C
Between the lithosphere and outer core
D
Along fault lines/plate boundaries
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