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