Plate Tectonics/Radiometric Dating Quiz

The process by which the ocean floor sinks beneath another plate and back into the mantle is known as

• Convection

• continental drift

• Subduction

• conduction

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The Himalayas in Asia are an example of what type of plate boundary?

• Continent to continent convergent

• Divergent

• transform

• Ocean to continent convergent

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

The San Andreas fault in California is known as an active earthquake area. What type of boundary is it?

• Converging

• Transform

• divergent

• sea floor spreading

Pictured in the diagram is a divergent boundary. Use what you know about divergent boundaries to determine which layer of rock is the oldest?

• layer L

• Layer O

• Layer M

• Layer N

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

How is it possible for NEW crust to be formed without increasing the surface area of the Earth?

• New crust breaks more easily than old crust

• Crust is destroyed at the same time it is created

• New crust is underwater where it sinks

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Earthquakes and volcanoes are most likely found in which locations?

• In the middle of continents

• At plate boundaries

• in oceans

• in the middle of plates

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

The time required for half of the parent isotope to decay into daughter isotopes.

• Absolute age

• relative age

• Fossil

• half-life

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NGSS.HS-PS1-8

Carbon-14 dating works well for finding the age of

• Dead plants/animals

• old volcanic rocks

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

A place where two plates slip past each other, moving in opposite directions, is known as a ___

• Convergent boundary

• Transform boundary

• divergent boundary

• rift valley

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The half-life of a radioactive group of atoms is 100 years, then how old is the rock if there have been two half-lives?

• 25 years

• 50 years

• 400 years

• 200 years

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NGSS.HS-PS1-8