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Chapter 1
Plate Tectonics
Georgia Performance Standard
S6E5: Students will investigate the scientific
view of how the earth’s surface is
formed.
a. Compare and contrast the Earth’s crust,
mantle, and core including temperature,
density, and composition.
c. Recognize that lithospheric plates
constantly move and cause major
geological events on the earth’s surface.
Essential Questions
1. What are the different layers of the
Earth?
2. What properties describe each layer?
3. How was the continental drift theory
developed?
4. What evidence exists for plate movement
from the sea floor?
5. How did scientists develop the theory of
plate tectonics?
1. Earth’s inner core and outer core are
both:
a)
b)
c)
d)
Parts of the molten asthenosphere
Parts of the earth’s rigid lithosphere
Completely solid spheres
Made up of hot metals
1. Earth’s inner core and outer core are
both:
a) Parts of the molten asthenosphere
b) Parts of the earth’s rigid lithosphere
c) Completely solid spheres
d) Made up of hot metals
2. How do Earth’s crust and mantle
differ?
a) The crust is much thinner and less dense
than the mantle.
b) The crust is much thinner and denser
than the mantle.
c) The mantle is much thicker and less
dense than the crust.
d) The mantle is much thinner and denser
than the crust.
2. How do Earth’s crust and mantle
differ?
a) The crust is much thinner and
less dense than the mantle.
b) The crust is much thinner and denser
than the mantle.
c) The mantle is much thicker and less
dense than the crust.
d) The mantle is much thinner and denser
than the crust.
3. Tectonic plates make up Earth’s
a) Inner core
b) Outer core
c) Lithosphere
d) asthenoshpere
3. Tectonic plates make up the Earth’s
a) Inner core
b) Outer core
c) Lithosphere
d) Asthenosphere
4. Most tectonic plates are made of
a) Continental crust and oceanic crust
b) The crust and the very top of the mantle
c) Parts of the earth’s lithosphere and
asthenosphere
d) The rigid, upper mantle and part of the
asthenosphere
4. Most tectonic plates are made of
a) Continental crust and oceanic crust
b) The crust and the very top of
the mantle
c) Parts of the earth’s lithosphere and
asthenosphere
d) The rigid, upper mantle and part of the
asthenosphere
5. The mantle
a) Is the Earth’s thickest layer
b) Is the Earth’s thinnest layer
c) Is less dense near the crust and more
dense near the core
d) Both a and c
5. The mantle
a) Is the Earth’s thickest layer
b) Is the Earth’s thinnest layer
c) Is less dense near the crust and more
dense near the core
d) Both a and c
6. Which layer of the Earth is a thin layer
of cool rock and surrounds the Earth
somewhat like a shell?
a) Mantle
b) Inner core
c) Outer core
d) crust
6. Which layer of the Earth is a thin layer
of cool rock and surrounds the Earth
somewhat like a shell?
a) Mantle
b) Inner core
c) Outer core
d) crust
7. The lithosphere is made up of the
following:
a) The mantle and inner core
b) The crust and all of the mantle
c) The crust and the very top of the mantle
d) None of the above
7. The lithosphere is made up of the
following:
a) The mantle and inner core
b) The crust and all of the mantle
c) The
crust and the very top of
the mantle
d) None of the above
8. Why did many scientists reject Wegenar’s
continental drift hypothesis?
a) He could not explain how the continents
moved
b) The geology of the continents did not support
the hypothesis
c) Fossil evidence never showed that the
continents were joined
d) The climates of the continents have remained
the same
8. Why did many scientists reject Wegenar’s
continental drift hypothesis?
a) He could not explain how the
continents moved
b) The geology of the continents did not support
the hypothesis
c) Fossil evidence never showed that the
continents were joined
d) The climates of the continents have remained
the same
9. What was a super continent that
existed about 200 million years ago?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Ridge rush
Pangaea
Asian plate mass
Biggie Continent
9. What was a super continent that
existed about 200 million years ago?
a) Ridge rush
b) Pangaea
c) Asian plate mass
d) Biggie Continent
10. What is the transfer of heat by the
movement of a material?
a) Tectonic plates
b) Earthquake
c) Convection
d) Divergent boundary
10. What is the transfer of heat by the
movement of a material?
a) Tectonic plates
b) Earthquake
c) Convection
d) Divergent boundary
11. The lithosphere is broken into many
large and small slabs of rock called
a)
b)
c)
d)
mid-ocean ridges
Convection current
Tectonic plates
Ridge rushes
11. The lithosphere is broken into many
large and small slabs of rock called
a) mid-ocean ridges
b) Convection current
c) Tectonic plates
d) Ridge rushes
12. Geologists combined their knowledge
of Earth’s plates, the sea floor, and the
asthenosphere to develop the
a)
b)
c)
d)
Pangaea
Theory of plate tectonics
mid-ocean ridges
None of the above
12. Geologists combined their knowledge
of Earth’s plates, the sea floor, and the
asthenosphere to develop the
a) Pangaea
b) Theory of plate tectonics
c) mid-ocean ridges
d) None of the above
13. In the asthenosphere heated rock
constantly rises, cools, sinks, and is
heated again. This motion that
transfers heat in a material is called
a) Convection current
b) Ridge rush
c) Theory of plate tectonics
d) convection
13. In the asthenosphere heated rock
constantly rises, cools, sinks, and is
heated again. This motion that
transfers heat in a material is called
a) Convection current
b) Ridge rush
c) Theory of plate tectonics
d) convection
14. Huge underwater mountain ridges are
called:
a)
b)
c)
d)
Tectonic plates
Convection currents
mid-ocean ridges
Ridge rushes
14. Huge underwater mountain ridges are
called:
a) Tectonic plates
b) Convection currents
c) mid-ocean ridges
d) Ridge rushes
15. The lithosphere sits on top of the
______________________.
a) Inner core
b) Outer core
c) Asthenosphere
d) crust
15. The lithosphere sits on top of the
______________________.
a) Inner core
b) Outer core
c) Asthenosphere
d) crust
16. A ______________________ is when
material from mid-ocean ridges
pushes the plates.
a) Tectonic plate
b) Convection current
c) Mantle
d) Ridge rush
16. A ______________________ is when
material from mid-ocean ridges
pushes the plates.
a) Tectonic plate
b) Convection current
c) Mantle
d)
Ridge rush
Know the layers!
17.An enormous gap that forms when
new crust cools and moves apart is
called a ______________________.
a)
b)
c)
d)
Rift valley
Convergent boundary
Magnetic reversal
Hot spot
17.An enormous gap that forms when
new crust cools and moves apart is
called a
______________________.
a)
b)
c)
d)
Rift valley
Convergent boundary
Magnetic reversal
Hot spot
18.A __________________ occurs
whenever two plates move toward
each other.
a)
b)
c)
d)
Divergent boundary
Convergent boundary
Magnetic reversal
Hot spot
18.A __________________ occurs
whenever two plates move toward
each other.
a)
b)
c)
d)
Divergent boundary
Convergent boundary
Magnetic reversal
Hot spot
19.A __________________ can be
used to track some plate movements
because it stays in about the same
place while the tectonic plate above
it keeps moving.
a)
b)
c)
d)
Rift valley
Magnetic reversal
Pangaea
Hot spot
19.A __________________ can be
used to track some plate movements
because it stays in about the same
place while the tectonic plate above
it keeps moving.
a)
b)
c)
d)
Rift valley
Magnetic reversal
Pangaea
Hot spot
20.Plates move horizontally past each
other along a ______________ .
a)
b)
c)
d)
Convergent boundary
Transform boundary
Divergent boundary
Magnetic reversal
20.Plates move horizontally past each
other along a ______________ .
a)
b)
c)
d)
Convergent boundary
Transform boundary
Divergent boundary
Magnetic reversal
21.A spreading center is a
__________________________ on
the ocean floor.
a)
b)
c)
d)
Convergent boundary
Transform boundary
Divergent boundary
Magnetic reversal
21.A spreading center is a
__________________________ on
the ocean floor.
a)
b)
c)
d)
Convergent boundary
Transform boundary
Divergent boundary
Magnetic reversal
22.Patterns of _________________
recorded in ocean-floor rocks
provide evidence of plate movement.
a)
b)
c)
d)
Hot spots
Magnetic reversals
Pangaea
None of the above
22.Patterns of _________________
recorded in ocean-floor rocks
provide evidence of plate movement.
a)
b)
c)
d)
Hot spots
Magnetic reversals
Pangaea
None of the above
23.Subduction occurs
a) Along a transform boundary on the
ocean
b) When two oceanic plates pull apart
c) When two continental plates
converge
d) When an oceanic plate and another
plate converge
23.Subduction occurs
a) Along a transform boundary on the
ocean
b) When two oceanic plates pull apart
c) When two continental plates
converge
d) When an oceanic plate and another
plate converge
24.What happens during a continentalcontinental collision?
a) Folded mountain belts form
b) One plate sinks below the other
plate
c) Mountains with volcanic peaks form
d) Island arcs form parallel to a trench
24.What happens during a continentalcontinental collision?
a) Folded mountain belts form
b) One plate sinks below the other
plate
c) Mountains with volcanic peaks form
d) Island arcs form parallel to a trench
25.Island arcs, like the islands of
Japan, form when two
a) Oceanic plates scrape past each
other
b) Continental plates scrape past each
other
c) Oceanic plates converge
d) Continental plates converge
25.Island arcs, like the islands of
Japan, form when two
a)Oceanic plates scrape past each other
b)Continental plates scrape past each
other
c)Oceanic plates converge
d)Continental plates converge
26.Crust is neither destroyed nor
formed along
a)
b)
c)
d)
Convergent boundaries
Transform boundaries
Oceanic-oceanic boundaries
Oceanic-continental boundaries
26.Crust is neither destroyed nor
formed along
a)
b)
c)
d)
Convergent boundaries
Transform boundaries
Oceanic-oceanic boundaries
Oceanic-continental boundaries