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Sect. 7-3 and 7-4 Practice Quiz
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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1. A possible result of plates moving along a transform boundary is
a. oceans.
c. earthquakes.
b. convection.
d. sea-floor spreading.
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2. What type of fault usually occurs because of tension?
a. folded
c. strike-slip
b. normal
d. reverse
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3. What type of fault usually occurs because of compression?
a. folded
c. strike-slip
b. normal
d. reverse
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4. In a reverse fault, where does the hanging wall move relative to the footwall?
a. upward
c. horizontally
b. downward
d. stays the same
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5. In a normal fault, where does the hanging wall move relative to the footwall?
a. upward
c. horizontally
b. downward
d. stays the same
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6. What is the area where two tectonic plates meet called?
a. a collision
c. a boundary
b. a mid-ocean ridge
d. a rift zone
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7. What type of boundary is formed when plates collide?
a. convergent
c. divergent
b. horizontal
d. transform
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8. What type of boundary is formed when plates separate?
a. convergent
c. divergent
b. horizontal
d. transform
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9. What type of boundary is formed when plates slide past each other?
a. convergent
c. divergent
b. horizontal
d. transform
____ 10. Where does sea-floor spreading take place?
a. convergent boundaries
b. transform boundaries
c. oceanic volcanoes
d. mid-ocean ridges
____ 11. Mountains formed by magma that reaches the Earth’s surface are
a. slip-strike.
c. fault-block.
b. folded.
d. volcanic.
____ 12. Sets of deep cracks that form between two tectonic plates that are pulling away from each other are known as
a. mid-ocean ridges.
c. clefts.
b. troughs.
d. rift zones.
____ 13. What happens at mid-ocean ridges?
a. strike-slip faults
b. magnetic reversal
c. sea-floor spreading
d. earthquakes
____ 14. Which of the following is associated with transform boundaries?
a. slab pull
c. sea-floor spreading
b. magnetic reversal
d. earthquakes
____ 15. What is compression?
a. stress squeezing an object
b. stress pulling an object
c. stress breaking an object
d. stress releasing an object
____ 16. What is tension?
a. stress squeezing an object
b. stress pulling an object
c. stress breaking an object
d. stress releasing an object
____ 17. What can tectonic plates form when they converge?
a. mid-ocean ridges
c. sea floor
b. mountains
d. asthenosphere
____ 18. The southern portion of Pangaea that broke apart about 180 million years ago is known as
a. Pangaea.
c. Gondwana.
b. Panthalassa.
d. Laurasia.
____ 19. Continental-oceanic collisions can also be called
a. continental-continental collisions.
c. divergent boundaries.
b. oceanic-oceanic collisions.
d. subduction zones.
____ 20. Mid-ocean ridges are the most common type of
a. continental-continental collision.
c. divergent boundary.
b. oceanic-oceanic collision.
d. subduction zone.
____ 21. The San Andreas Fault is an example of a
a. reverse fault.
b. normal fault.
c. strike-slip fault.
d. divergent plate boundary.
Matching
Match each item with the correct statement below.
a. divergent boundary
d. convergent boundary
b. slab pull
e. transform boundary
c. convection
f. ridge push
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where two plates collide
where two plates are moving away from each other
where two plates are moving horizontally past each other
process of moving layers of rock by heating and cooling
where denser oceanic lithosphere sinks beneath continental lithosphere
where oceanic lithosphere slides downhill due to gravity
Match each item with the correct statement below.
a. uplift
e. normal fault
b. subsidence
f. anticline
c. tension
d. compression
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stress at a divergent plate boundary
stress at a convergent plate boundary
upward-arching rock layer
downward-arching rock layer
hanging wall moves down relative to footwall
hanging wall moves up relative to footwall
sinking of rock layers
rising of rock layers
g. syncline
h. reverse fault
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