Quiz about Plate Tectonics Vocabulary

Question 1

Process by which one lithospheric plate slides under another, old crust is destroyed

Accepted Answer

Subduction

Answer

Lithosphere

Answer

Pangaea

Answer

Sea floor Spreading

Question 2

Plate boundary that forms when two plates move away from each other, new crust is formed

Accepted Answer

Divergent

Answer

Unbalanced Forces

Answer

Convergent

Answer

Ring of Fire

Question 3

Plate boundary that forms when two plates collide

Accepted Answer

Convergent

Answer

Equator

Answer

Earthquake

Answer

Lithosphere

Question 4

Forms from the rising magma where two ocean plates collide

Accepted Answer

Volcanic island

Answer

Fossils

Answer

Density

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Subduction

Question 5

Plate boundary that forms when two plates slide past one another

Accepted Answer

Transform

Answer

Glaciers

Answer

Ring of Fire

Answer

Pangaea

Question 6

Undersea mountain range that forms where two plates move apart

Accepted Answer

Mid- ocean ridge

Answer

Island Arc

Answer

Faults

Answer

Ring of Fire

Question 7

This feature deepens and widens as the plates move apart

Accepted Answer

Rift Valley

Answer

Fossils

Answer

Volcanic island

Answer

Mid- ocean ridge

Question 8

Area where most if the volcanoes are located

Accepted Answer

Ring of Fire

Answer

Convergent

Answer

Rift Valley

Answer

Equator

Question 9

The rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle.

Accepted Answer

Lithosphere

Answer

Convection Current

Answer

Plate Tectonics

Answer

Subduction

Question 10

A feature formed as a result of a plate subduction.

Accepted Answer

Trench

Answer

Convergent

Answer

Plate Tectonics

Answer

Sea floor Spreading

Question 11

The measure of the amount of mass in a given space or volume.

Accepted Answer

Density

Answer

Earthquake

Answer

Trench

Answer

Rift Valley

Question 12

A crustal feature formed as a result of the movement along a transform boundary.

Accepted Answer

Faults

Answer

Sea floor Spreading

Answer

Pangaea

Answer

Island Arc

Question 13

Large, ancient landmass that was composed of all the continents joined together

Accepted Answer

Pangaea

Answer

Earthquake

Answer

Convection Current

Answer

Water Displacement

Question 14

Preserved remains of once-living organisms

Accepted Answer

Fossils

Answer

Divergent

Answer

Ring of Fire

Answer

Asthenosphere

Question 15

Alfred Wegener believed landmasses of Earth once fit together to form single landmass called "Pangaea"; landmasses "drifted" to where they are today; theory disregarded due to lack of evidence

Accepted Answer

Continental Drift Theory

Answer

Volcanic island

Answer

Density

Answer

Faults

Question 16

The theory that pieces of Earth's lithosphere are in constant motion, driven by convection currents in the mantle.

Accepted Answer

Plate Tectonics

Answer

Ring of Fire

Answer

Trench

Answer

Rift Valley

Question 17

A current caused by the rising of heated fluid and sinking of cooled fluid

Accepted Answer

Convection Current

Answer

Fossils

Answer

Transform

Answer

Divergent

Question 18

The process by which new oceanic lithosphere forms as magma rises toward the surface and solidifies

Accepted Answer

Sea floor Spreading

Answer

Water Displacement

Answer

Lithosphere

Answer

Convergent

Question 19

The shaking that results from the movement of rock beneath Earth's surface.

Accepted Answer

Earthquake

Answer

Glaciers

Answer

Rift Valley

Answer

Transform

Question 20

A string of volcanoes that form as the result of subduction of one oceanic plate beneath a second oceanic plate.

Accepted Answer

Island Arc

Answer

Glaciers

Answer

Lithospheric Plates

Answer

Subduction

Question 21

The soft layer of the mantle on which the lithosphere floats.

Accepted Answer

Asthenosphere

Answer

Ring of Fire

Answer

Equator

Answer

Lithosphere

Question 22

Large pieces of Earth's lithosphere that move over the asthenosphere (tectonic plates)

Accepted Answer

Lithospheric Plates

Answer

Fossils

Answer

Pangaea

Answer

Water Displacement

Question 23

A technique for determining the volume of a solid placed into a liquid. You look at how much the liquid rises.

Accepted Answer

Water Displacement

Answer

Plate Tectonics

Answer

Lithospheric Plates

Answer

Continental Drift Theory

Question 24

Forces that cause a change in the motion of an object

Accepted Answer

Unbalanced Forces

Answer

Transform

Answer

Lithospheric Plates

Answer

Island Arc

Question 25

Large areas of slow moving ice

Accepted Answer

Glaciers

Answer

Mid- ocean ridge

Answer

Plate Tectonics

Answer

Trench

Question 26

Scratches and grooves on bedrock caused by glacial abrasion

Accepted Answer

Glacial Striations

Answer

Convergent

Answer

Trench

Answer

Mid- ocean ridge

Question 27

An imaginary circle around the middle of the earth, halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole

Accepted Answer

Equator

Answer

Rift Valley

Answer

Lithospheric Plates

Answer

Unbalanced Forces

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