Plate Tectonics Earthquakes And Volcanoes Quiz Yr 9 Science
- 1.
Classify each of the plate boundaries shown on the figure and identify the type of boundary shown. - 2.If the boundary shown at A occured on land instead of the ocean floor, what would be the long-term result?
- 3.Compare and contrast the three different types of convergent boundaries.
- 4.Describe the process of sea floor spreading.
- 5.A boundary between two plates that are moving toward each other is called?
- A.
Divergent Boundary.
- B.
Convergent Boundary.
- C.
Subduction Boundary.
- D.
Deep-sea trench.
- 6.A boundary between two lithospheric plates that are moving apart is called?
- A.
A rift.
- B.
Rift valley.
- C.
Divergent Boundary.
- D.
Convergent Boundary.
- 7.True or false. Data indicates that earthquakes and volcanic activity do not occur radomly throughout the world?
- A.
True.
- B.
False.
- 8.In the end Alfred Wegener became?
- A.
Rich.
- B.
Went to jail.
- C.
Was not successful in defending the continental drift hypothesis.
- D.
Was murdered.
- 9.What was Wegener's evidence that continental drift actually happened?
- A.
Fossils of Mesosaurus.
- B.
Similarities in the shapes of Africa and South America.
- C.
Distinctive rock formations.
- D.
All of the above.
- 10.The theory that describes the formation, movements, and interactions of these plates is called?
- A.
Plate tectonics.
- B.
The Lithosphere.
- C.
Rift Valley.
- D.
Volcanoes.
- 11.Who discovered the continental drift in 1912?
- A.
Obama.
- B.
Alfred Wegener.
- C.
Albert Einstein.
- D.
JJ Thompson.
- 12.Measurements have shown that the flow of heat leaving the rocks along the mid-ocean ridges is __________ _________
- A.
Normal.
- B.
Unusually low.
- C.
Unusually high.
- D.
All of the above.
- 13.What are the two types of Magnetism on the ocean floor?
- A.
Normal Polarity, and Reversed Polarity.
- B.
South Polarity, and North Polarity.
- C.
West Polarity, and South Polarity.
- D.
None of the above.
- 14.In the early 1500's, explorers using maps noted the remarkable fit between which continents?
- A.
North America and Africa.
- B.
South America and Australia.
- C.
Africa and South America.
- D.
Africa and the Haiti.
- 15.A long chain of volcanic mountains on the ocean floor with a deep central valley is called?
- A.
Mid-ocean ridge.
- B.
Continental drift.
- C.
Age of the ocean floor.
- D.
Normal polarity.
- 16.Deep valleys at the center of a mid-ocean ridge is called?
- A.
Rift valley.
- B.
Rifts.
- C.
Deep-sea trench.
- D.
Subduction boundary.
- 17.Another word for crack is?
- A.
Crack.
- B.
Split.
- C.
Rift.
- D.
Rift valley.
- 18.The boundary between the plates is called a?
- A.
Subduction boundary.
- B.
Convergent boundary.
- C.
Plate.
- D.
Divergent boundary.
- 19.A deep trench that forms along a boundary is called?
- A.
Sea deep trench.
- B.
Trench.
- C.
Deep-sea trench.
- D.
Subduction trench.
- 20.What is the boundary that can occur at the convergence of two oceanic plates or at the convergence of an oceanic plate with a continental plate?
- A.
Divergent boundary.
- B.
Convergent boundary.
- C.
Subduction boundary.
- D.
Transform boundary.
- 21.Mt.Shasta is a example of what type of boundary?
- A.
Subduction boundary
- B.
Divergent boundary
- C.
Convergent boundary.
- D.
Transform boundary.
- 22.Name two examples of a divergent boundary.
- A.
Islands of indonesia and western coast of south america.
- B.
Himalayas and san andreas fault.
- C.
Mid-atlantic ridge and east pacific rise.
- D.
San andreas fault and mid-ocean ridges.
- 23.A collision boundary is when.......
- A.
The boundary that forms when two continents collide and are welded into a single, larger continent.
- B.
The boundary between the plates.
- C.
A boundary between two lithospheric plates that are moving apart.
- D.
None of the above.
- 24.A boundary between two plates that are sliding past eachother is called?
- A.
Collision boundary.
- B.
Fusion boundary.
- C.
Sliding boundary.
- D.
Transform boundary.
- 25.Mantle convection is?
- A.
Heat from Earth's inner and outer cores and is transferred through the mantle.
- B.
Heat in the inner core that is trqansfered through the mantle.
- C.
Heat in the outer core that is transferred through the mantle.
- D.
All of the above.
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