Plate Tectonics Test

What geological process created the Himalayan Mountain Range?

• earthquake in a subduction zone

• tectonic plate over a hot spot

• movement at a transform fault

• two plates converging(moving toward another)

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

Oceanic crust is.....

• Younger and less dense than continental crust

• Thinner, younger, and more dense than continental crust

• older, thicker, and less dense than continental crust

• Bigger and younger than continental crust

Name the boundary

• divergent

• convergent

• transform

• sergent

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which of the following is associated with transform boundary?

• volcanoes

• mountains

• trenches

• earthquakes and fault line

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Plate movement is caused by _____

• The rotation of the Earth

• Ocean tides

• Convection current in the mantle

• The moon's gravity

What are mid-ocean ridges?

• A chain of underwater falls

• A chain of underwater volcanoes

• A chain of underwater mountains

• A chain of underwater rocks

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What was the name of the supercontinent?

• The world

• Pangea

• Land

• Mass continent

Which theory states that the lithosphere is broken into plates that move by convection currents in the mantle?

• Continental Drift Theory

• Theory of Plate Tectonics

• The Big Bang Theory

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is the soft layer on which tectonic plates move?

• lithosphere

• asthenosphere

• lower mantle

What types of boundaries do these pictures represent? (Top to bottom)

• Divergent, convergent, transform

• Transform, divergent, convergent

• Divergent, transform, convergent

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3