Quiz about Plate Tectonics

Question 1

Which of the following causes Earth's tectonic plates to move?

Accepted Answer

Convection currents in the mantle

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Energy from the Sun

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Magnetic Pole Reversal

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Faults in Mountain Ranges

Question 2

What type of event will occur at this boundary?

Accepted Answer

Earthquake

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Volcano Eruption

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Tornado

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Mountain Building

Question 3

What type of plate boundary is this?

Accepted Answer

Convergent

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Plate

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Divergent

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Transform

Question 4

A divergent boundary occurs when plates ....

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Pull apart

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Come together

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Slide past each other

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subducting

Question 5

Which of the following is the name of the ancient supercontinent formed 280 Million Years ago.

Accepted Answer

Pangea

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Gondwanda

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Laurasia

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Neverland

Question 6

Which of the following is NOT evidence to support the theory of plate tectonics?

Accepted Answer

Sand Erosion

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Fossils

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Mountains

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Glaciers

Question 7

What geologic feature/event you be most likely to find at a transform boundary?

Accepted Answer

Earthquakes

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Volcanoes

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Mountains

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Rift Valleys

Question 8

What geologic feature/event would you most likely to find at a divergent boundary between two pieces of oceanic crust?

Accepted Answer

Mid-Ocean Ridge

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Rift Valley

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Island Arc

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Flat land

Question 9

What geologic feature/event would you most likely to find at a convergent boundary between two pieces of continental crust?

Accepted Answer

Mountain

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Volcano

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Rift

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Island Arc

Question 10

The core is mostly made up mostly of which elements?

Accepted Answer

Nickel and Iron

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Oxygen and Silicon

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Silicon and Magnesium

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Iron and Magnesium

Question 11

How are scientist able to estimate the thickness of each layer of the Earth?By studying __________

Accepted Answer

seismic waves

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radio waves

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sonar waves

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laser waves

Question 12

This is the plastic layer of the mantle on which pieces of the lithosphere move.

Accepted Answer

Asthenosphere

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Lithosphere

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Mesosphere

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Crust

Question 13

This layer is divided into pieces called tectonic plates.

Accepted Answer

Lithosphere

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Mesosphere

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Asthenosphere

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Mantle

Question 14

A giant landmass that existed 200 million years ago

Accepted Answer

Pangaea

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Wegener

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Archyopteryx

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Ammonite

Question 15

Which piece of evidence did Wegener use to prove continental drift?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

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The shape of the continents

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Similar fossils found on separate continents

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Tree fossils found in odd places

Question 16

As you travel from the inner core to the crust, how would temperature, pressure and density of the material change?

Accepted Answer

The would all decrease.

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The would all increase

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Nothing, the layers are made of the same material throughout

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Temperature would decrease, but pressure and density would increase

Question 17

Which of the following changes would end Earth's tectonic activity?

Accepted Answer

Earth's mantle becomes cooler and solid.

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Earth's crust becomes a cooler solid

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Earth's mantles becomes a warmer semiliquid

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Earth's outer core becomes warmer

Question 18

Convection currents in the mantle are thought to be the driving force behind tectonic movement. At which location do the convection currents cause the plates to diverge?

Accepted Answer

mid oceanic ridges

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strike-slip fault

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subduction zone

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folded mountains.

Question 19

The diagram shows what can occur when two continental plates collide.Which characteristic of the Indian Plate explains why it moves under the Eurasian Plate?

Accepted Answer

It is denser.

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It is larger.

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It is molten.

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It is younger.

Question 20

What do we call an area where more then two plates interact in different ways

Accepted Answer

plate boundary zones

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hot spots

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convergent boundaries

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subduction

Question 21

This is the name for the chain of volcanoes and earthquakes around the edge of the Pacific Plate.

Accepted Answer

The Ring of Fire

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The Subduction Zone

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The Seismic-Tectonic Area

Question 22

What kind of plate boundary is shown here?

Accepted Answer

convergent

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divergent

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transform

Question 23

What kind of plate boundary is shown here?

Accepted Answer

divergent

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convergent

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transform

Question 24

Hot melted rock that forms underground near the subduction zone is called ___.

Accepted Answer

magma

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lava

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sedimentary rock

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igneous rock

Question 25

What is magma called when it reaches the surface of Earth?

Accepted Answer

Lava

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viscosity

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toxic gas

Question 26

How much ___ that is in a volcano's magma helps to decide whether it will be explosive or quiet.

Accepted Answer

silica

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rock

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air holes

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soil

Question 27

True or False: The more silica a volcano has in its magma, the quieter it will erupt.

Accepted Answer

false

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true

Question 28

Where do volcanoes typically form?

Accepted Answer

At plate boundaries.

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In the middle of tectonic plates.

Question 29

What is an explosive eruption?

Accepted Answer

When trapped gases build up pressure until they explode with incredible force.

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When magma flows easily and erupts quietly with gases bubbling out gently and lava oozing out quietly.

Question 30

Which of the following is NOT a feature of stratovolcanoes?

Accepted Answer

Made of layers of just lava.

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Also called composite volcanoes.

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Made of layers of ash and lava.

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Very tall.

Question 31

Which of the following is NOT a feature of shield volcanoes?

Accepted Answer

Made of layers of ash and lava.

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Some of the biggest mountains in the world.

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Made of layers of just lava.

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Very wide.

Question 32

What kind of eruptions do stratovolcanoes have?

Accepted Answer

Explosive eruptions.

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Quiet eruptions.

Question 33

What kind of eruptions do shield volcanoes have?

Accepted Answer

Quiet eruptions.

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Explosive eruptions.

Question 34

What kind of volcano is this?

Accepted Answer

Shield volcano

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Stratovolcano

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Cinder cone volcano

Question 35

What kind of volcano is this?

Accepted Answer

Cinder cone volcano

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Stratovolcano

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Shield volcano

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