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