- 1. A volcanic trench (fosa volcanica) would be found in
A) glacier
B) mid-oceanic ridge
C) Hawaii
D) mountain
E) volcano
- 2. A subduction zone is found in a/an ________________________ boundary.
A) strike-slip
B) convergent
C) divergent
D) volcanic
E) transform
- 3. Seafloor spreading, a process where new oceanic crust is created in a divergent zone, also causes a/an _____________________.
A) large volcano
B) petroleum
C) diamond
D) trench
E) Hawaii
A) large subduction zones
B) large volcanoes
C) large pieces of floating crust
D) large volcanic islands
E) lithospheric zones
- 5. There are 2 types of tectonic plates, the ____________________ and the ______________________.
A) Hawaiian, Artic
B) oceanic, Hawaiian
C) continental, volcanic
D) Icelandic, continental
E) oceanic, continental
- 6. Tectonic plates float on the Earth's _________________________.
A) volcanoes
B) core
C) mantle
D) crust
E) lithosphere
- 7. Earth's lithosphere is comprised of Earth's crust and the upper part of the Earth's _________________________.
A) lithosphere
B) volcanoes
C) core
D) mantle
E) crust
- 8. The continents were once part of one giant landmass, _________________________.
A) Rhodenia
B) Panamericanaea
C) Pangaea
D) Artica
E) Hawaiiana
- 9. "The continents have moved during Earth's history." This quote is part of the _____________________________ theory.
A) blood diamond
B) hot spot
C) tectonic plate
D) continental drift
E) subduction zone
- 10. _____________ crust, or crust with higher density, is pushed into the mantle at subduction zones.
A) Older
B) Lighter
C) Younger
D) Newer
E) Prettier
- 11. Earthquakes are a product of _______ types of boundaries.
A) 3
B) 4
C) 0
D) 1
E) 2
- 12. San Francisco, California, sits atop the fault of ___________________________.
A) San Ramiro
B) San Francisco
C) San Andres
D) San Andrew
E) San Augustine
- 13. The fault under San Francisco is known to be a _________________________ tectonic plate boundary.
A) transform
B) convergent
C) divergent
D) volcanic
E) hot spot
- 14. Hawaii is a product of volcanic eruptions that come out of a/an ______________________.
A) strike-slip spot
B) convergence
C) transformance
D) Hot Spot
E) divergence
- 15. A convection current is caused by differences in _______________________.
A) air pressure
B) color
C) temperature
D) mass
E) odor
- 16. Tectonic plate movements are causes by _____________________________.
A) conveyor belts
B) convection currents
C) Lithospheric sources
D) pressure in Earth's crust
E) heat in Earth's core
- 17. The known types of seismic waves are: ________________________.
A) S, L, and U
B) P, K, and F
C) P, L, and K
D) P, S, and L
E) V, U, and H
- 18. Secondary waves cannot travel through ________________________.
A) gases and clouds
B) fluids and oceans
C) gases and solids
D) gases and liquids
E) liquids and fluids
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