Chapter 14: Earth's Changing Surface Question Preview (ID: 37339)


Plate Tectonics, Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Weathering, Erosion, And Deposition. TEACHERS: click here for quick copy question ID numbers.

What is a convergent boundary?
a) a place where two plates move towards each other
b) a place where two plates move away from each other
c) a place where two plates slide past each other
d) a place where there is no plate movement

Mauna Loa is a _____________ volcano.
a) super
b) composite
c) shield
d) cinder

Which of the following is a place where volcanoes are NOT found?
a) convergent boundaries
b) transform boundaries
c) hot spots
d) divergent boundaries

What are plate tectonics?
a) squeezing force at a convergent boundary
b) hypothesis that states that the continents move
c) theory that states that the crust is broken into rigid plates that move slowly over Earth's surface
d) the rupture and sudden movement of rocks along a break or crack in Earth's crust

A _____________ is the surface along which the crust moves.
a) tension
b) convergent boundary
c) earthquake
d) fault

What is the large depression in the center of a volcano?
a) caldera
b) lava flow
c) mid-ocean ridge
d) hot spot

When oceanic crust is forced under continental crust, this is called a ____________.
a) transform boundary
b) mid-ocean ridge
c) continental drift
d) subduction zone

What type of force is experienced at a transform boundary?
a) tension
b) shear
c) compression
d) no force is experienced at a transform boundary

When was the Theory of Plate Tectonics proposed?
a) 1910's
b) 1930's
c) 1960's
d) 1990's

Which type of volcano only experiences lava flows?
a) supervolcanoes
b) composite volcanoes
c) cinder volcanoes
d) shield volcanoes

When the shaking ground acts more like a liquid than a solid, it is called _________.
a) physical weathering
b) liquefaction
c) compression
d) landslide

In which type of climate does soil form the fastest?
a) cool and wet
b) cold and dry
c) hot and dry
d) warm and wet

Erosion is
a) the process that breaks down rock, changing Earth's surface over time.
b) the moving of weathered material, or sediment, from one location to another.
c) a location where volcanoes form far from plate boundaries.
d) the large depression in the center of a volcano.

Physical and chemical are two types of _________.
a) deposition
b) volcanoes
c) weathering
d) erosion

The mountains that form when lava builds up and cools are known as what?
a) Hot Spots
b) Calderas
c) Mid-Ocean Ridges
d) Lava Flows

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