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