Plate Tectonics and Faults Test

1. All of the following are examples of evidence for

Pangaea except:
A. Fossil Record
B. Layers of rocks between continents
C. Shapes of the continents
D. Distribution of elements
2. What forms at Mid-Ocean Ridges?
A. Ocean Trenches
B. Mountains
C. New seafloor
D. Continental crust
3. Where is old seafloor melted back into the mantle?
A. Mid-Ocean Ridges
B. Ocean Trenches
C. Volcanoes
D. Mountain Ranges
4. Older seafloor rock can be found closer to
A. Continental shorelines
B. Deep Ocean Trenches
C. Mid-Ocean Ridges
D. Abyssal Plain
5. How is heat moved through mantle convection?
A. Hot rock deep in the mantle flows up, where the
rock cools, and descend back into the mantle
B. Rock heats at the crust and descends into the
mantle, where it cools
C. Air circulates through the mantle, cooling it
D. Water is pulled into the mantle through plate
tectonics, where it boils off as steam
6. A scientist is studying energy transfer that occurs in
the oceans, atmosphere, and Earths interior.
Which of these is the scientist most likely studying?
A. Pressure
B. Density
C. Gravity
D. Convection
7. What transfers energy in mantle convection?
A. Rock
B. Water
C. Air
D. Ice
8. Pangaea is or was
A. A supercontinent of the past that contained all
the landmasses we see now
B. A massive ocean
C. The distribution of land we see now
D. A chain of volcanoes

9. Which fault forms with compressional stress?

A. Reverse
B. Normal
C. Strike-Slip
D. Vertical
10. Strike-Slip faults occur at what boundary?
A. Divergent
B. Convergent
C. Transform
D. Mid-Ocean Ridges
11. Tectonic plates are found in what layer of Earths
structure?
A. Lithosphere
B. Asthenosphere
C. Lower Mantle
D. Inner Core
12. Tectonic plates move on what layer?
A. Lithosphere
B. Asthenosphere
C. Lower Mantle
D. Inner Core
13. Which provides the best evidence for the theory
that faults and volcanoes are results of tectonic
plate interactions?
A. Faults on tectonic plates are in constant
motion, but volcanoes may not erupt for many
years.
B. Faults and volcanoes existed long before there
were tectonic plates.
C. Tectonic plates that have many faults do not
usually have volcanoes.
D. Faults and volcanoes are often found at
tectonic plate boundaries.
14. Which geologic event occurred first?
A. Pangaea underwent formation
B. South America and Africa split apart.
C. Iceland formed at the mid-Atlantic ridge.
D. India collided with Asia, forming the
Himalayan Mountains.
15. One part of California is on the Pacific Plate, while
the remainder of the state is on the North American
Plate. The two plates are moving to the northwest at
different speeds, causing one plate to slide past the
other. This movement in plates creates a
A. Normal fault
B. Reverse fault
C. Strike-slip fault
D. Thrust fault
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16. All of the following features of the ocean indicate

tectonic activity except
A. Abyssal plains
B. Mid-ocean ridges
C. Seamounts
D. Trenches
17. The folding and faulting found in the rocks of the
Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia were created by:
A. Collisions of continental plates
B. Wave action of prehistoric ocean
C. The Coriolis effect
D. Heating and cooling of the prehistoric
atmosphere
18. The Marianas Trench in the Pacific Ocean is 36,160
feet below sea level. This deep oceanic trench is
caused by
A. Swift ocean currents eroding away the ocean
floor
B. the collapse of an empty magma chamber in a
large volcano
C. excessive boat traffic disrupting the normal
sedimentation process
D. two tectonic plates colliding and one plunging
below the other
19. One reason continental drift was rejected as it was
initially proposed was because:
A. The proposed mechanism of how the continents
moved was unconvincing
B. Pangaea was shown to not exist
C. No evidence has been found for plate motion
D. The earth shrinks and expands instead
20. The process of subduction is
A. One plate being forced into the mantle under
another plate, where it melts
B. Two plates are diverging, producing mid-ocean
ridges
C. Mountain-building, in which continents are
pushed into each other
D. Weathering and erosion, in which rocks become
sediments
21. Volcanoes occur at all of the following locations
except:
A. Divergent Boundaries
B. Transform Boundaries
C. Mid-Ocean Ridges
D. An oceanic plate subducting under another
oceanic plate

22. What theory was produced from the combination of

continental drift and seafloor spreading?
A. Plate Tectonics
B. Mantle Convection
C. Paleomagnetism
D. Volcanism
23. Which of the following is not considered a result of
the movement of tectonic plates?
A. Earthquakes
B. Mountain ranges
C. Increased volcanic activity
D. Karst topography (caves and sinkholes caused
by limestone dissolving underground)
24. This diagram illustrates which geological process?
A. Faulting
B. Folding
C. Weathering
D. Metamorphism
In the diagram shown, four types of faults are shown.
Use it to answer questions 23 - 26.
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25. Which wall has been moved down the fault in fault
number 1?
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26. What type of forces created fault number 2?
_____________________________________
27. How is fault number 3 different from fault 2?
_____________________________________
28. The San Andreas Fault can best be represented by
which of these faults? _______________________
29. What is the surface called in which these walls are
moving? _______________________
30. The Himalayan Mountains are being built by India
moving up into Asia. What kind of boundary would
build these mountains?
A. Oceanic Plates Converging
B. Continental Plate Converging
C. Divergent
D. Transform
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31. What is not a consequence of plate tectonics?

A. Earthquakes
B. Volcanoes
C. Continental motion
D. Tides
32. Seafloor spreading is best described as
A. The widening of the ocean through new
seafloor being created at mid-ocean ridges
B. The subduction of one plate beneath another
C. Convergence of plates
D. Plates that are scraping past each other
33. What is the property that determines which plate
will subduct under another?
A. Plate thickness
B. Surface features
C. Types of life
D. Density
34. The Appalachian Mountains formed in what type of
plate boundary?
A. Divergent
B. Convergent
C. Transform
D. Reverse
35. Pangaea broke into how much of todays land?
A. All of it
B. Half of it
C. Some of it
D. None of it
36. Which scientist published work on Continental
Drift in 1915?
A. Charles Darwin
B. Alfred Wegener
C. J. Tuzo Wilson
D. James Hutton
37. Which is not produced with convergent boundaries?
A. Volcanic mountains
B. Folded mountains
C. Thrust faulted mountains
D. Mid-Ocean Ridges

Use the diagram above to answer questions 30 - 32.

38. What boundary is causing the Oceanic Spreading
Ridge?
_____________________________________
39. What is happening to the Subducting Plate in the
upper mantle to cause volcanoes above it?
_____________________________________
40. What type of plate boundary is causing the trenches
on either the diagram?
_____________________________________
41. When Pangaea was forming, multiple continents
were colliding. What type of boundary would these
continents be forming?
A. Divergent
B. Convergent
C. Transform
D. Strike-Slip
Bonus:
42. Is the Atlantic Ocean widening or closing, and what
boundary is causing this change?
43. Where is paleomagnetism recorded, and in what
rock?
44. What property of the layer below tectonic plates
allows these plates to move on it?