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Plate tectonics assessment Review
By MAI HASSAN
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Question 1
1.
What compass direction is Colden Creek flowing?
East
west
North
south
Question 2
2.
What compass direction is Fish Creek flowing?
South
North
East
West
Question 3
3.
What are the 4 lines of evidences for Wegener's theory of continental drift?
Similar Rocks and mountains
Magnetic Field
Climate(Glacier)
Seismology
similar animal and plants Fossils
continents can fit together like puzzle pieces
Bathymetry
Sonar
Question 4
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What mechanism makes plates move that Wegener didn't know about?
Radiation from the sun
Convection of the outer core
Convection of the mantle (asthenosphere)
Conduction of the mantle
Question 5
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Which picture is a convergent boundary?
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B
C
Question 6
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Which picture is a divergent boundary?
A
B
C
Question 7
7.
Which picture is a transform boundary?
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B
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Question 16
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What process is shown in this picture?
Convergent
Divergent
Transform
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Question 26
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What happens during the process of subduction?
Mid-ocean ridges make new material
2 continental plates collide
Plates slide past each other
One plate goes under another
Question 8
8.
What feature is this?
The Core
Mid-Ocean Ridge
Rift
Trench
Question 9
9.
What process is shown in this picture?
Subduction
Seafloor Spreading
Rifting
Mountain Building
Question 10
10.
Which 2 are evidence for the process of seafloor spreading?
Fossils
Sonar detected Ridges under ocean
Magnetic Field Reversals
Climate
Sedimentation
Question 11
11.
What other features occur at this type of boundary?(choose 2)
New Seafloor crust
Mountains
Lakes
Islands
Trench
Deep Earthquakes
Volcanoes(magma erupts between the mountain)
Question 12
12.
What process is shown in this picture?
Convergent Subduction
Seafloor Spreading
Rifting
Mountain Building
Question 13
13.
What causes this process?
Radiation from the sun
Mantle (asthenosphere) Convection
Conduction
Mrs. Smoak's psychic powers
Outer Core Convection
Question 14
14.
What features occur at this type of boundary? (choose 4)
New Seafloor
Mountains
Trench
Volcanic arcs (Islands)
Shallow Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Crust is recycled
Lakes
Question 15
15.
What feature is this?
Trench
Volcano
Mountains
Rift valley
Question 17
17.
What process is shown in this picture?
Convergent ; Mountain Building
Seafloor Spreading
Rifting
convergent; Subduction
Question 18
18.
What causes this process?
Snakes! Duh!
Outer Core Convection
Mantle (asthenosphere) Convection currents
Radiaiton from the Sun
Conduction
Question 19
19.
What features occur at this type of boundary? (choose 3)
New Seafloor
Mountains
Lakes
Trench
Shallow Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Volcanic (arcs) Islands
Question 20
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Why do oceanic plates go under continental plates?
They are less dense and thick
They are more dense and thick
oceanic plates are more dense and thin
They are less dense and thin
Question 21
21.
What process is shown in this picture?
Convergent; Subduction
Rifting
Seafloor Spreading
Convergent ;Mountain Building
Question 22
22.
What type of boundary is this?
Tranform
Convergent
Divergent
What is a boundary?
Question 23
23.
What features occur at this type of boundary?(choose 1)
Islands
Lakes
New Seafloor
Trench
Mountains
Volcanoes
Deep Earthquakes
Question 24
24.
What type of boundary is this?
Transform
A pretty one
Convergent
Divergent
Question 25
25.
What are caused by thes types of boundaries?(choose 2)
Volcanoes
New Seafloor
Earthquakes
Mountains
Trench
Islands
Faults
