Chapter 17 and Earth Science

At which tectonic plate boundary do plates slide horizontally past each other?

• transform boundary

• divergent boundary

• oceanic-oceanic boundary

• continental-continental boundary

Which of the following landforms results from divergence of continental crust?

• earthquake

• a rift valley

• a mountain range

• a deep-sea trench

Which of the following is NOT associated with transform boundaries?

• deformed and fractured crust

• shallow earthquakes

• long faults

• volcanoes

__________ is a device that can detect changes in the strength of the magnetic field.

• GPS

• Satellite

• Sonar

• Magnetometer

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Which of the following features forms when two oceanic plates converge?

• rift valleys

• divergent boundaries

• magnetic reversal

  patterns

• subduction

  zones

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Oceanic crust is made mostly of ___.

• sediments

• granite

• water

• basalt

Where are most divergent boundaries found?

• on the seafloor

• at subduction zones

• on continents

• along coastlines

Based on observations of fossils of Glossopteris, Wegener concluded that ___.

• magnetic reversals had occurred in Earth’s past.

• Glossopteris grew only in the tropics.

• Earth’s continents were never joined.

• continental rocks containing these fossils had once been joined.

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Which of the following landforms results from divergence of continental crust?

• a deep-sea trench

• a long fault

• a rift valley

• a mountain range

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What is thought to be the driving mechanism of plate movement?

• volcanoes

• convection currents in the mantle

• continental drifting

• conduction of heat in the mantle

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