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HNHS - Annex Science 10 Test - Quarter 1
Quiz by WARREN GONZALES
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What is the outermost layer of the Earth?
The crust and upper mantle make up Earth’s __________.
Which statement about the Earth’s crusts is CORRECT?
What do we call the continuously moving part of the earth’s crust?
Which theory states that the entire crust is broken and is continuously moving?
Which of the following is NOT a result of Plate Tectonics?
This earthquake type happens when the shifting of Earth’s plates is driven by the sudden release of energy within some limited region of the rocks of Earth.
How are tsunamis created?
A landmass that projects well above its surroundings is a mountain. What do you call a chain of mountains?
It is the location on the Earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake.
If an earthquake begins while you are in a building, the safest thing for you to _____.
Why is it important to be aware of places prone to earthquakes?
Plates move apart at __________ boundaries.
Plates slide past each other at ________________.
The boundary between two plates moving toward each other is called a _________.
Plate Tectonic Theory states that continents have moved ________ to their current location.
When magma in the earth’s mantle develops a great pressure, the ground above it is pushed upward. If this happens in the middle of an ocean, what landform is produced?
The tall landform created when two continental plates converge.
Materials in the mantle flow up and down. Which of the following best describes the mantle?
Which of the following happens when plates diverge or move away from each other?
How do the plates move when we feel that the ground is shaking?
It is a landform produced when two continental plates converge.
Most transform fault boundaries are found in the oceans; a few are on the continents. An example of this type is the San Andreas Fault located in
It is formed when ocean water flips upward, sometimes up to certain meters high, due to the great push caused by convergence of plates.
The place where a subducting plate reaches the mantle during convergence.
The word used to refer to the shaking of the ground due to any activity in the lithosphere.
The idea that Earth’s lithosphere is broken up into separate plates that float on the mantle is the theory of __________.
The process of one plate moving under another plate is called ______________.
Tectonic plates ride on ________________.
The plastic-like upper portion of the mantle is called
What evidences do scientists use to support the Continental Drift Theory?
If you are a cartographer, what would give you an idea that the continents were once joined?
What discovery provided strong support for Continental Drift Theory?
Why was Alfred Wegener's Continental Drift Theory not accepted immediately by the people during his time?
What do you call the supercontinent landmass formed million years ago?
He is a German Scientist who hypothesized in 1912 that continents were once a giant landmass called Pangaea.