Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the
statement or answers the question.
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What marks the boundary between the Pacific and North American plates?
a. | the Sierra Nevada batholith | c. | the San Andreas
fault | b. | the Cascade Mountains | d. | the Transverse Ranges |
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Which of the following causes seismic waves?
a. | strike-slip faults | c. | earthquakes | b. | magnetic reversal | d. | sea-floor
spreading |
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Which of the following describes a transform boundary?
a. | boundary at which a tectonic plate subducts | b. | boundary at which
two tectonic plates collide | c. | boundary at which two tectonic plates
separate | d. | boundary at which two tectonic plates slide past one another
horizontally |
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Which of the following is the idea that all continents were part of one big
landmass?
a. | oceanic drift | c. | oceanic theory | b. | continental drift | d. | continental
theory |
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What is the outermost layer of Earth called?
a. | core | c. | asthenosphere | b. | lithosphere | d. | mesosphere |
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Where does sea-floor spreading take place?
a. | convergent boundaries | c. | oceanic volcanoes | b. | transform boundaries | d. | mid-ocean
ridges |
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What type of boundary is formed when plates collide?
a. | convergent | c. | divergent | b. | horizontal | d. | transform |
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What type of boundary is formed when plates slide past each other?
a. | convergent | c. | divergent | b. | horizontal | d. | transform |
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According to the continental drift theory, a single, huge continent once existed
called
a. | Pangaea. | c. | Panthalassa. | b. | Wegener. | d. | Eurasia. |
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What type of boundary is formed when plates separate?
a. | convergent | c. | divergent | b. | horizontal | d. | transform |
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What is the order of the layers of the Earth from the surface to the
center?
a. | asthenosphere, lithosphere, mesosphere, outer core, inner core | b. | lithosphere,
asthenosphere, mesosphere, outer core, inner core | c. | mesosphere, outer core, inner core,
lithosphere, asthenosphere | d. | lithosphere, asthenosphere, mesosphere, inner
core, outer core |
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Tectonic plates “float” on
a. | the ocean. | c. | the asthenosphere. | b. | the mantle. | d. | the
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Matching
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Match each item with the correct statement below. a. | syncline | f. | anticline | b. | folded mountains | g. | tension | c. | normal
fault | h. | reverse
fault | d. | compression | i. | molten rock | e. | fault-block
mountains |
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Mountains are caused by tension in Earth’s crust.
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Stress pulls rock apart.
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Stress pushes rocks together.
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Rock limbs slope down to form an arch.
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This type of mountain range forms at convergent boundaries.
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Rock limbs slope up to form a trough.
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Hanging wall moves down relative to footwall.
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Hanging wall moves up relative to footwall.
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Volcanic mountains form when this erupts.
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Match each item with the correct statement below. a. | volcanic mountains | f. | fossils | b. | magma | g. | heat | c. | seismometer | h. | magnetic reversal | d. | global positioning system
(GPS) | i. | fault-block
mountains | e. | folded mountains |
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form when tension causes Earth’s crust to drop down relative to other
blocks of crust
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used to measure the movement of tectonic plates
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cools to form new rock at mid-ocean ridges
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used to measure the density of Earth’s layers
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form when molten rock erupts onto Earth’s surface
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used as evidence for continental drift
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used as evidence for sea-floor spreading
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causes convection in the mantle
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form when rock layers are squeezed together and pushed upward
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