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Grade 7 Tectonics
What area around the Pacific Plate where earthquakes and volcanoes are common?
  1. Hot Spots
  2. Volcanoes
  3. Ring of Fire
  4. Magma
Grade 7 Tectonics
Which is a theory that Earth's crust and upper mantle are broken into sections?
  1. Continental Drift
  2. Earthquakes
  3. Plate Tectonics
  4. Rock Cycle
Grade 8 Tectonics
Explains how sections of the crust collide, move apart, and slide past each other.
  1. Oceanic crust
  2. Plate tectonics
  3. Climate change
  4. Pangaea
Grade 8 Tectonics
Subduction zones occur where
  1. oceanic plates move apart.
  2. continental plates move apart.
  3. an oceanic plate slides underneath a continental plate.
  4. a continental plate collides with another continental plate.
Grade 10 Tectonics
Places where tectonic plates move apart are called
  1. convergent boundaries.
  2. transform boundaries.
  3. subduction zones.
  4. divergent boundaries.
Grade 8 Tectonics
The theory that Earth's upper mantle and crust is broken into plates that float and move around on the mantle is
  1. continental drift.
  2. seafloor spreading.
  3. plate tectonics.
  4. evolution.
Grade 6 Tectonics
What evidence supports the theory of continental drift?
  1. fossils
  2. mountain ranges
  3. rocks & minerals
  4. coastlines
  5. all of the above
Grade 5 Tectonics
In the Southwestern U.S., tectonic forces have pushed rocks upward over millions of years to form the Colorado Plateau. As the plateau has risen during this time, the Colorado River has been cutting down through the plateau to form the Grand Canyon.

Development of the Grand Canyon through the uplift of the plateau and erosion by the Colorado River illustrates that
  1. landforms result from constructive forces only.
  2. landforms result from a combination of constructive and destructive forces.
  3. landforms result from neither constructive and destructive forces.
  4. landforms result from destructive forces only.
Grade 6 Tectonics
Which of these is not a type of boundary between plates?
  1. Transform
  2. Divergent
  3. Convergent
  4. Radial
Grade 6 Tectonics
The San Andreas fault is an example of what kind of boundary?
  1. divergent
  2. oceanic
  3. transform
Grade 9 Tectonics
Earthquakes may result from
  1. sudden movements of rock beneath Earth's surface.
  2. movement of volcanic gases and magma.
  3. a severe landslide or the collapse of a cave.
  4. any of the causes listed above.
Grade 6 Tectonics
Plate boundary where two plates move away from each other.
  1. convergent
  2. transform
  3. divergent
  4. fault
Grade 6 Tectonics
What is a fault?
  1. crack in Earth that stores energy which can cause Earth to move
  2. the point inside Earth at which an earthquake occurs
  3. a fracture in Earth along which NO movement has occurred
  4. the point on Earth's surface directly above the earthquake focus
Grade 9 Tectonics
What is the largest tectonic plate?
  1. Scotia plate
  2. Pacific plate
  3. Eurasian plate
  4. Antarctic plate
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