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Name: ______________________ Class: _________________ Date: _________ Pre-Test: Chapter 7-Plate Tectonics Multiple Choice Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. ____ 1. Tectonic plates consist of a. continental crust. b. oceanic crust. c. both continental and oceanic crust. d. mesosphere. ____ 2. The deep interior of the Earth can be mapped using a. seismic waves. c. information from drilling expeditions. b. sonar. d. ocean waves. ____ 3. Evidence for sea-floor spreading has come from a. fossils in South America and Africa. c. ancient climatic conditions. b. magnetic minerals on the ocean floor. d. the breakup of Pangaea. ____ 4. The global positioning system can map the rate of tectonic plate movement using a. radio waves. c. visual markers. b. lasers. d. motion detectors. ____ 5. A possible result of plates moving along a transform boundary is a. oceans. c. earthquakes. b. convection. d. sea-floor spreading. ____ 6. What is the liquid layer of the Earth’s core called? a. lithosphere c. inner core b. mesosphere d. outer core ____ 7. What type of fault usually occurs because of tension? a. folded c. strike-slip b. normal d. reverse ____ 8. What type of fault usually occurs because of compression? a. folded c. strike-slip b. normal d. reverse ____ 9. In a reverse fault, where does the hanging wall move relative to the footwall? a. upward c. horizontally b. downward d. stays the same ____ 10. In a normal fault, where does the hanging wall move relative to the footwall? a. upward c. horizontally b. downward d. stays the same ____ 11. What kind of force can lead to mountains with sharp, jagged peaks? a. tension c. stress b. compression d. rebound 1 ID: A Name: ______________________ ID: A ____ 12. What type of boundary is formed when plates collide? a. convergent c. divergent b. horizontal d. transform ____ 13. Which of these did NOT provide evidence for continental drift? a. sea-floor spreading c. the fossil record b. oceanic plate theory d. magnetic reversals ____ 14. The mantle is denser than the crust because it contains more a. iron. c. silicon. b. magnesium. d. oxygen. ____ 15. Seismic waves travel through Earth’s layers at different speeds depending on the a. density. c. area. b. mass. d. shape. ____ 16. Mountains formed by magma that reaches the Earth’s surface are a. slip-strike. c. fault-block. b. folded. d. volcanic. ____ 17. 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. ____ 18. What does the theory of continental drift explain? a. the layers of the Earth c. how volcanoes formed b. why continents move d. how oceans formed ____ 19. Which of the following is associated with transform boundaries? a. slab pull c. sea-floor spreading b. magnetic reversal d. earthquakes ____ 20. What is tension? a. stress squeezing an object b. stress pulling an object c. stress breaking an object d. stress releasing an object ____ 21. 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 ____ 22. Earthquakes produce a. seismographs. b. maps. ____ c. seismic waves. d. volcanoes. 23. The giant continent that was composed of all the land on Earth was called a. Pangaea. c. Gondwana. b. Panthalassa. d. Laurasia. 2 Name: ______________________ ____ ____ ID: A 24. Magnetic reversals are preserved in a. compass needles. b. magnetic minerals. c. all minerals. d. seismic waves. 25. 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. uplift e. normal fault b. subsidence f. anticline c. tension g. syncline d. compression h. reverse fault ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 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 Match each item with the correct statement below. a. crust c. tectonic plates b. Pangaea d. inner core ____ ____ 34. the outside layer of the Earth 35. the last supercontinent 3