Plate Tectonics Test

Plate Tectonics Test

6th - 8th Grade

70 Qs

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Plate Tectonics Test

Plate Tectonics Test

Assessment

Quiz

Science

6th - 8th Grade

Medium

Created by

Michael Volker

Used 7+ times

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70 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The North American plate and Pacific plates meet at the San Andres Fault in California causing frequent earthquakes. This fault is located at a _____ boundary.

Ridge

Divergent

Convergent

Transform

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Media Image

Which oceanic plate in the above picture must be more dense? LEFT RIGHT

The plate on the left (the plate with the volcano on it)

The plate on the right (without the volcano)

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which TWO landforms occur when a continental plate and an oceanic plate hit each other?

Volcanoes on land and Volcanic Islands

Volcanoes on land and Deep Sea Trench

Volcanoes on land and Mountains

Rift Valley and Mid Ocean Ridge

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How do most mountains form?

Continents collide and fold up on each other

Earth is shrinking and the crust wrinkles up

Ocean plates diverge and fold up on each other

Gravity from the moon pulls sections of the Earth up

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Media Image

What kind of landform is created when a continent starts to get torn apart?

Volcanic Island

Deep Sea Trench

Mid-ocean Ridge

Rift Valley

Mountains

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Plates are not created or destroyed: They just pass by each other.

Converge

Diverge

Transform

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

This is where new material is added on to plates.

Converge

Diverge

Transform

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