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Plate Tectonics
Test Description: Plate boundaries
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) Transform plate boundaries create strong _____.
A
mountains
B
earthquakes
C
faults
D
volcanoes
2) Volcanic arcs are formed along which type of plate boundary?
A
Divergent Boundary
B
Convergent Boundary
C
All of these
D
Transform Boundary
3) What do you call the process or driving force that makes plates move?
A
Uplift
B
Convection
C
None of these
D
Subduction
4) What do you call the solid layer with plasticity in the upper mantle that is located just below the lithosphere?
A
Mantle
B
Asthenosphere
C
Lithosphere
D
Crust
5) Which among the following type of plate boundaries results to the formation of the Mid-Ocean ridge?
A
Divergent Boundary
B
Convergent Boundary
C
Transform Boundary
D
All of these
6) Which among the following type of plate boundaries results to the formation of the San Andreas Fault?
A
Convergent Boundary
B
Divergent Boundary
C
Transform Boundary
D
All of these
7) Which among the following type of plate boundaries results to Mountain formation?
A
Convergent Boundary
B
Divergent Boundary
C
Transform Boundary
D
Convergent Boundary
8) The giant landmass where all continents were connected
A
Gondwana
B
Pangaea
C
Pandwana
D
Laurasia
9) Hot magma ______ and cool magma _______.
A
rises; sinks
B
rises; rises
C
sinks; rises
D
d) rises and sinks; only sinks
10) This process makes new crust at the bottom of the ocean at a divergent boundary
A
subduction
B
hotspot
C
seafloor spreading
D
Mid-Atlantic Ridge
11) The Hawaiian Islands are an example
A
hotspot
B
vacation destination
C
transform boundary
D
convergent boundary
12) The border between two tectonic plates
A
border
B
fault
C
boundary
D
joint
13) Oceanic crust near the mid-ocean ridge is ___________ than oceanic crust farther away from the ridge. a) younger
A
harder
B
older
C
the same
D
younger
14) A rift valley forms at a
A
convergent plate boundary
B
transform boundary
C
deep-ocean trench
D
divergent plate boundary
15) Any trace of an ancient organism that has been preserved in rock is called a
A
continent
B
fossil
C
landform
D
landmass
16) The process by which the ocean floor sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle is known as
A
convection
B
conduction
C
continental drift
D
subduction
17) The geological theory that states that pieces of Earth's lithosphere are in constant, slow motion is the theory of
A
plate tectonics
B
deep-ocean trenches
C
sea-floor spreading
D
subduction
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