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Earth and Plate Tectonics
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  • 1. "All Land" or supercontinent
A) Pangaea
B) lithosphere
C) Seismic
D) Tectonics
  • 2. Earth's crust is also called the _____
A) athenosphere
B) subduction
C) lithosphere
D) inner core
  • 3. Molten means___
A) melted
B) crushed
C) pressed
D) hardened
  • 4. Tectonics plate boundaries that come together
A) intelligent
B) tectonic
C) divergent
D) convergent
  • 5. Tectonics plate boundaries that move apart from each other
A) convergent
B) intelligent
C) divergent
D) transform
  • 6. Tectonics plate boundaries that slide past each other in opposite directions
A) divergent
B) convergent
C) subduction
D) transform
  • 7. The San Andreas fault is an example of this plate boundary
A) convergent
B) divergent
C) subduction
D) transform
  • 8. Process when one plate of greater density moves under another one of lighter density
A) Pangaea
B) divergence
C) mantle
D) subduction
  • 9. During subduction of plates, this is created
A) water
B) magma
C) oxygen
D) solid rock
  • 10. Which plate boundary type creates Earth's NEWEST crust?
A) transform
B) Pangea
C) divergent
D) convergent
  • 11. Around what ocean would you find the "Ring of Fire" ?
A) Pacific
B) Arctic
C) Indian
D) Atlantic
  • 12. What % of earth's volcanoes occur at the Ring of Fire?
A) 10%
B) 90%
C) 75%
D) 100%
  • 13. What % of earth's earthquakes occur at the Ring of Fire?
A) 90%
B) 100%
C) 10%
D) 75%
  • 14. Which 2 U.S. states have the most earthquakes?
A) Kentucky and Georgia
B) Alaska and California
C) Hawaii and Alaska
D) Florida and S.C.
  • 15. T/F South Carolina has earthquakes.
A) True
B) False
C) a long long time ago
  • 16. T/F South Carolina has volcanoes.
A) only in Myrtle Beach
B) True
C) False
  • 17. T/F South Carolina is on a major tectonic plate boundary.
A) True
B) False
  • 18. The coast of California has these 2 plate boundaries that cause major earthquakes.
A) North American and South American
B) Atlantic and Pacific
C) North American and Pacific
  • 19. The San Andreas fault was created by these plate boundaries
A) North American and Pacific
B) Alaskan and Pacific
C) Atlantic and Arctic
  • 20. What does hot molten rock do?
A) doesn't move
B) sinks to earth's core
C) rises to earth's surface
  • 21. What do cooling gases and cooling magma do?
A) rise
B) don't move
C) sink
  • 22. Which of these is molten rock below ground?
A) lava
B) fault
C) subduction
D) magma
  • 23. Which plate boundary creates mountains?
A) Pangaea
B) divergent
C) transform
D) convergent
  • 24. Which plate boundary creates undersea trenches?
A) outer core
B) divergent
C) convergent
D) transform
  • 25. Which plate boundary creates the most powerful earthquakes?
A) convergent
B) intelligent
C) divergent
D) transform
  • 26. Which plate boundary creates seafloor spreading?
A) intelligent
B) convergent
C) transform
D) divergent
  • 27. Which plate boundary creates the newest, freshest crust on earth?
A) transform
B) convergent
C) belligerent
D) divergent
  • 28. How many years ago do scientists think Pangaea existed?
A) 273 million
B) 273 thousand
C) 273
D) 2,730
  • 29. An earthquake is felt most strongly at its__
A) focus
B) highest point in the air
C) farthest point away
D) epicenter
  • 30. The earth has an electromagnetic field because its _____ is made of iron
A) outer core
B) inner core
C) mantle
D) crust
  • 31. Earth's _________ protects us from the Sun's harmful radiation
A) water
B) clouds
C) oxygen
D) electromagnetic field
  • 32. The athenosphere is the same as earth's __
A) crust
B) outer core
C) mantle
D) atmosphere
  • 33. Fractures in earth's crust where movement takes place
A) faults
B) lava
C) subduction
D) Pangaea
  • 34. Name the 2 solid layers of earth
A) crust and outer core
B) crust and mantle
C) crust and inner core
D) mantle and outer core
  • 35. Name the 2 semi-liquid layers of earth
A) mantle and inner core
B) crust and mantle
C) inner core and outer core
D) mantle and outer core
  • 36. T/F Earth's continents are still moving today.
A) False
B) True
  • 37. Earth's continental plates/crust can move due to the ____
A) mantle being molten rock
B) orbit of earth around the Sun
C) strong winds of our atmosphere
D) crust being molten rock
  • 38. In the U.S., our continent "sits" mostly is on this plate.
A) North American
B) Indian
C) Pacific
D) Atlantic
  • 39. Why does a volcano occur?
A) a vent forms in top of mountain and allows gas and magma to escape
B) due to an earthquake
C) when the inner core turns to a liquid
D) when the crust turns to a liquid
  • 40. The theory that Earth’s crust is divided into large rock “plates” that glide over the mantle layer
A) convergence
B) Plate Tectonics
C) subduction
D) convection
  • 41. Earthquakes originate from a point of contact underground called the _____
A) inner core
B) outer core
C) focus
D) epicenter
  • 42. Which layer of earth is made of solid iron?
A) crust
B) mantle
C) outer core
D) inner core
  • 43. A vibration of earth caused by moving rock along a fault
A) athenosphere
B) tsunami
C) earthquake
D) volcano
  • 44. Which of these do we "walk on"?
A) athenosphere
B) lithosphere
C) atmosphere
D) Pangaea
  • 45. As friction builds between the plates, the rocks bend with the force. When the force becomes too great, the ____
A) rocks travel downward
B) rocks no longer move
C) rocks snap past each other
  • 46. What is layer A called?
A) mantle
B) lithosphere
C) inner core
D) outer core
  • 47. What is layer B called?
A) athenosphere
B) outer core
C) inner core
D) crust
  • 48. What is layer C called?
A) mantle
B) crust
C) outer core
D) inner core
  • 49. What is layer D called?
A) lithosphere
B) both answers a and b
C) athenosphere
D) crust
  • 50. Which layer allows earth to act as a magnet?
A) crust
B) mantle
C) inner core
D) outer core
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