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Grade 9 Tectonics
What is the largest tectonic plate?
  1. Scotia plate
  2. Pacific plate
  3. Eurasian plate
  4. Antarctic plate
Grade 10 Tectonics
Most earthquakes occur near the                     of tectonic plates.
  1. Circum-Pacific Belt
  2. boundaries
  3. center
  4. ocean ridges
Grade 8 Tectonics
Which of the following does evidence indicate is an explanation for plate motion?
  1. convection currents
  2. rift valleys
  3. weather patterns
  4. earthquakes
Grade 10 Tectonics
What causes tectonic plates to move?
  1. radiation from within the crust
  2. magnetic forces from the inner core
  3. convection currents in the mantle
  4. slow continental drift
Grade 8 Tectonics
What was Wegener's idea that the continents slowly moved over Earth's surface?
  1. Pangaea
  2. Continental drift
  3. Plate tectonics
  4. Fossils
Grade 5 Tectonics
What do you call the sudden movement of Earth's crust?
  1. earthquake
  2. tsunami
  3. volcano
  4. fault
Grade 6 Tectonics
Which waves created by an earthquake move the fastest?
  1. l-waves
  2. p-waves
  3. s-waves
  4. f-waves
Grade 6 Tectonics
When convergent plates collide, if both plates are pushed upward, what is formed?
  1. Fissures
  2. Mountain Ranges
  3. Volcanoes
  4. Rock Cycle
Grade 7 Tectonics
What is the best way to describe Earth's crust?
  1. Always moving
  2. Moves very rarely
  3. Never moves
  4. Moves only during earthquakes
Grade 8 Tectonics
In diagram shown, what does the letter G best represent?
Subduction Zone
  1. oceanic crust
  2. continental crust
  3. mantle conduction
  4. mantle convection
Grade 7 Tectonics
The Richter scale measures the
  1. destruction caused by an earthquake.
  2. magnitude of an earthquake.
  3. movement of tectonic plates.
  4. amplitude of seismic waves.
Grade 12 Tectonics
What does the plate tectonics theory tell us?
  1. continental crust "plows through" oceanic crust.
  2. oceanic crust "slides over" continental crust.
  3. lithospheric plates move.
  4. tectonic forces cause the most damage in the center of the plates.
Grade 7 Tectonics
vibrations that travel through Earth carrying energy
  1. seismic waves
  2. earthquake
  3. mantle
  4. core
Grade 6 Tectonics
What instrument is typically used to measure seismic waves?
  1. sonograph
  2. seismograph
  3. simograph
  4. radar
Grade 6 Tectonics
A break or crack in Earth's lithosphere along which rocks move.
  1. fault
  2. igneous rock
  3. metamorphic rock
  4. sedimentary rock
Grade 8 Tectonics
Tectonic plates move approximately this far each year.
  1. one foot
  2. one inch
  3. one yard
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