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Plate Tectonics Review

Quiz by Karen Boyse

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20 questions
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  • Q1
    Which one of these was not a form of evidence used by Alfred Wegener
    Climate evidence in places that were unusual to find them
    Matching rocks and landforms on different continents
    Sonar evidence to show Seafloor Spreading
    Fossils of different same animals in different places
    30s
  • Q2
    Why did geologists reject Wegener's idea of Continental Drift?
    He couldn't explain how they moved
    He didn't have enough evidence
    They thought he was crazy
    His theory didn't make any sense
    30s
  • Q3
    What technology helped to provide evidence of the Theory of Plate Tectonics
    Sonar
    Satellites
    Microscopes
    Computers
    30s
  • Q4
    Transform Boundary Faults make mountains
    False
    True
    30s
  • Q5
    Two plates moving away from each other is what kind of boundary?
    Divergent
    Transform
    Convergent
    30s
  • Q6
    When two plates are moving together, it is what kind of boundary?
    Transform
    Convergent
    Divergent
    30s
  • Q7
    When two plates are sliding past each other, it is what kind of boundary?
    Divergent
    Transform
    Convergent
    30s
  • Q8
    What crustal feature is formed when two oceanic plates are separating in the Atlantic Ocean?
    Mountain
    Rift Valley
    Fault
    Oceanic Ridge
    30s
  • Q9
    The newest crust on the ocean floor if formed at what type of boundary?
    Divergent
    Transform
    Convergent
    30s
  • Q10
    Which type of boundary to Earthquakes occur at the most?
    Transform
    Convergent
    Divergent
    30s
  • Q11
    Which type of boundary do folded mountains form at?
    Convergent Oceanic Continental
    Divergent Oceanic
    Transform
    Convergent Continental Continental
    30s
  • Q12
    What important process takes place to form volcanoes under water or on land?
    Rifting
    Subduction
    Faulting
    Sea Floor Spreading
    30s
  • Q13
    Volcanic Islands form at what kind of boundary?
    Convergent Oceanic Continental
    Divergent
    Transform
    Convergent Oceanic Oceanic
    30s
  • Q14
    As you move farther out from the center of a mid ocean ridge, the rocks are
    Younger
    Older
    30s
  • Q15
    Why do so many volcanoes and earthquake happen around the "Ring of Fire" in Pacific Ocean?
    It is a really big ocean
    Because it is getting bigger
    All Volcanoes cause earthquakes
    There are alot of plate boundaries there
    30s

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