Plate Tectonics Vocab Chap 8
THe test is about the plate tectonics vocab
- 1.A hypothesis that earth continents move on earths surface?
- A.
Craton
- B.
Continental drift
- C.
Convergent boundary
- D.
Pangea
- 2.A Boundary between two plates that are moving toward each other?
- A.
Convergent boundary
- B.
Divergent boundary
- C.
Transform boundary
- D.
Colliding boundary
- 3.The Ancient Core of the continent?
- A.
Deep sea trench
- B.
Mid ocean ridge
- C.
Rift
- D.
Craton
- 4.A long harrow, steep-sided trough that runs parallel to continental margins or to volcanic island chains?
- A.
Mid ocean ridge
- B.
Divergent boundary
- C.
Deep Sea Trench
- D.
Pangea
- 5.A boundary between two Lithospheric plates that are moving apart.
- A.
Divergent boundary
- B.
Convergent boundary
- C.
Transform boundary
- D.
Subduction boundary
- 6.A process by which heat from earths inner and outer cores is transfered through the mantle?
- A.
Terrane
- B.
Rift
- C.
Craton
- D.
Mantle convection
- 7.Is a long chain of mountains with a central rift vally that is located along a divergent boundary?
- A.
Slab pull
- B.
Mid- ocean ridge
- C.
Deep sea Trench
- D.
Rift vally
- 8.The name of the hypothestical landmass consistin of all the continents welded together?
- A.
Pangea
- B.
Pandora
- C.
Proto
- D.
Parthon
- 9.The theory that the litosphere is made of plates that move and interact with eachther at their boundaries
- A.
Continental drift
- B.
Plate tectonics
- C.
Convergent boundary
- D.
Slab pull
- 10.A force that is exerted by cooling, subsiding rock on the seperating litospheric plates at a mid ocean ridge?
- A.
Rift
- B.
Slab pull
- C.
Terrane
- D.
Ridge push
- 11.A Crack or opening in earths crust?
- A.
Craton
- B.
Rift
- C.
Rift vally
- D.
Terrane
- 12.A deep vally at at a point where lithospheric plates are moving apart, such as at a mid ocean ridge?
- A.
Slab pull
- B.
Rift Vally
- C.
Ridge push
- D.
Pangea
- 13.A force at a subduction boundary that the sinking edge of the subduction plate exerts on the rest of the plate?
- A.
Slab pull
- B.
Terrane
- C.
Rift
- D.
Craton
- 14.A convergent boundary where an oceanic plate is plunging beneath another over riding plate?
- A.
Divergent boundary
- B.
Transform boundary
- C.
Collision boundary
- D.
Subduction boundary
- 15.A large block of lithospheric plate that has been moved often over a distance of 1000 km and attached to the edge of a continent?
- A.
Terrane
- B.
Slab pull
- C.
Mantel Convection
- D.
Plate tectonics
- 16.A boundary between two plates that are sliding past each other?
- A.
Divergent boundary
- B.
Convergent boundary
- C.
Transform boundary
- D.
Subduction boundary
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