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PLATE TECTONICS _____ 23) Plate tectonics is a ___________________. A) theory B)

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PLATE TECTONICS

_____    23) Plate tectonics is a ___________________.

                A) theory               B) fact                   C) discarded hypothesis

_____    24) _________________ plate boundaries are where plates are created.

                A) Divergent                         B) Convergent                      C) Transform fault

_____    25) _________________ plate boundaries are where plates are destroyed.

                A) Divergent                         B) Convergent                      C) Transform fault

_____    26) _________________ plate boundaries are where plates move away from each other.

                A) Divergent                         B) Convergent                      C) Transform fault

_____    27) _________________ plate boundaries are where plates move away from each other.

                A) Divergent                         B) Convergent                      C) Transform fault

_____    28) _________________ plate boundaries are where plates move towards each other.

                A) Divergent                         B) Convergent                      C) Transform fault

_____    29) _________________ plate boundaries are where plates slide past each other.

                A) Divergent                         B) Convergent                      C) Transform fault

_____    30) The type of plate boundary found at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is a _________________ plate boundary.

                A) divergent                          B) convergent                       C) transform fault

_____    31) The type of plate boundary found at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is a _________________ plate boundary.

                A) divergent                          B) convergent                       C) transform fault

_____    32) The type of plate boundary found at the East Pacific Rise is a _________________ plate boundary.

                A) divergent                          B) convergent                       C) transform fault

_____    33) The type of plate boundary found at the Himalayan Mountains in Asia north of India is a

_________________ plate boundary.

                A) divergent                          B) convergent                       C) transform fault

_____    34) The type of plate boundary found at the Aleutian Islands westward from Alaska is a

_________________ plate boundary.

                A) divergent                          B) convergent                       C) transform fault

_____    35) The type of plate boundary found at Japan is a _________________ plate boundary.

                A) divergent                          B) convergent                       C) transform fault

_____    36) The type of plate boundary found at the Cascade Mountains in Oregon and Washington is a

_________________ plate boundary.

                A) divergent                          B) convergent                       C) transform fault

_____    37) The type of plate boundary found at the Andes Mountains along the west coast of South America is a

_________________ plate boundary.

                A) divergent                          B) convergent                       C) transform fault

_____    38) The youngest seafloor occurs ___________________.

                A) near trenches                   B) near mid-oceanic ridges    C) near hot spot traces   D) at abyssal plains

_____    39) The Hawaiian Island-Emperor Seamount Chain was made by a ______________________.

                A) subduction zone             B) convergent plate boundary          C) hot spot            D) transform fault

_____    40) Where did the Cascade Mountains along the west coast of Oregon and Washington form?

                A) Where oceanic and oceanic lithosphere converge.

                B) Where oceanic and oceanic lithosphere diverge.

                C) Where oceanic and continental lithosphere converge.

                D) Where continental and continental lithosphere converge.

                E) Where magma from a hot spot burned through the crust forming volcanoes.

_____    41) Where do volcanic mountains such as Hawaiian Islands tend to occur?

                A) Where oceanic and oceanic lithosphere converge.

                B) Where oceanic and oceanic lithosphere diverge.

                C) Where oceanic and continental lithosphere converge.

                D) Where continental and continental lithosphere converge.

                E) Where magma from a hot spot burned through the crust forming volcanoes.

_____    42) What is driving plate tectonics causing the plates to move around on the surface of the Earth?

                A) hot plumes       B) slab-push and slab-pull                 C) convection cells              D) It is unknown.

EVIDENCE FOR PLATE TECTONICS

_____    43) At irregular intervals the magnetic field switches polarity: north becomes south and south becomes north, this is called ______________________.

                A) magnetic reversals         B) magnetic stripes              C) magnetic polarity           D) ferromagnetism

_____    44) The study of the Earth

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