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