ES Unit 3 Test Review

1. Which block diagram below represents the plate motion at the Himalayan Mountains (where the Eurasian plate and Indian-Australian Plate meet on land)?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

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2. Compared to the density and composition of the continental crust, the oceanic crust is

• less dense and more mafic

• less dense and more felsic

• more dense and less mafic

• more dense and less felsic

3. The Hawaiian Islands were formed...

• from lava flowing over Earth’s surface where two tectonic plates move apart

• at an oceanic plate moving over a mantle hot spot

• from two oceanic plates colliding to form an island arc

• from tectonic plates sliding past each other

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4. Which geologic feature is composed of the youngest crustal bedrock?

• Peru-Chile Trench

• San Andreas Fault

• Mid-Atlantic Ridge

• Adirondack Mountains

5. Which two features are commonly found at convergent boundaries?

• mid-ocean ridges

• wide valleys and deltas

• ocean trenches and subduction zones

• hot spots

6. The aerial photograph below shows two streams that have been displaced by tectonic movement along the San Andreas fault. The arrows show the relative direction of movement along the fault. This movement occurred along which type of plate boundary?

• convergent

• transform

• complex

• divergent

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7. What is the range of pressure in Earth’s interior where rock with a density range of 3.4-5.6 g/cm3 is found?

• 0.2 to 1.4 million atmospheres

• 0.8 to 2.3 million atmospheres

• 1.4 to 3.1 million atmospheres

• 2.3 to 3.5 million atmospheres

8. An earthquake originated in New York State. The P-wave travel time for this earthquake was recorded in the data table below for four widely separated seismic stations, A, B, C, and D. If the first P-wave arrived at seismic station A at 10 hrs 22 min 30 sec (10:22:30), what was the origin time for the earthquake?

• 02:02:30

• 10:30:50

• 10:14:10

• 10:22:30

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9. If it takes 40 seconds for the P-wave to arrive at Buffalo, about how long would it take for the S-wave from this same earthquake to arrive at Buffalo? Hint: use the S & P wave chart ESRT page 11. You don't need the data table above to solve this problem.

• 0 min 50 sec

• 6 min 40 sec

• 4 min 00 sec

• 1 min 20 sec

13. The diagram below represents a portion of Earth’s interior. Letters A, B, and C represent interior layers. The graph shows the velocity of P-waves and S-waves at various depths in Earth’s interior. Which layers of Earth’s interior are represented by letters A and C?

• A is the lithosphere, C is rigid mantle.

• A is the crust, C is the asthenosphere.

• A is the asthenosphere, C is the crust.

• A is lithosphere, C is the inner core

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