Transcript 1. Where is the triple junction?

1. Where is the triple junction?
A
B
C
D. All of the above
E. None of the above
2. What ocean floor feature is found
just offshore of the west coast of
South America?
A.
B.
C.
D.
East Pacific Rise
Peru-Chile Trench
Great Barrier Reef
Easter Island Hotspot
3. Most present-day volcanic island
arcs are found along the margins of
which ocean?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Atlantic
Arctic
Indian
Pacific
Southern
4.For Americans, the most famous
transform plate boundary is…
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
The New Madrid Fault Zone
The Puerto Rico Trench
The Sigsbee Deep
Mt. St. Helens
The San Andreas Fault Zone
5. At which location is NEW crust
forming?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Iceland
Japan
Alaska
Brasil
Mexico
6. Place these block
diagrams in proper
chronological sequence.
A.A-B-C-D
B.B-A-C-D
C.C-D-A-B
D.D-B-A-C
E.D-C-A-B
7. Here’s a map of Africa’s Great Lakes. Judging by
shape and by the Theory of Antipodal Focusing, which
one might be considered most likely to have been
formed by a meteor impact?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Lake Turkana
Lake Albert
Lake Victoria
Lake
Tanganyika
E. Lake Nyasa
(a.k.a., Lake
Malawi)
8. Here are some pictures
of the Siberian Traps, both
when they were active
(top) and as they look
today (bottom) .
According to the Theory of
Antipodal Focusing, what
may have caused this
largest of flood basalts?
A. Subduction in Japan
B. Transform Shifting in
South America
C. Crater Impact in
Antarctica
D. Volcanic Eruption in
Australia
9. Where do MOST transform
boundaries occur?
A.
B.
C.
D.
In oceans
Along island arcs
In mountain ranges
On coastal plains
10. What is the name given to this
landmass?
A. Panthalassa; B. Gondwanaland; C. Tethys;
D. Pangea; E. Laurasia
11. The photo below marks what kind
of tectonic boundary?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Divergent
Convergent
Transform
Hotspot
Collisional
12. This man is the “father” of the
Theory of Plate Tectonics. His name is
…
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Henry Hess
Galileo Galilei
Charles Darwin
Alfred Wegener
Alfred Wallace
13. What kind of stress is forming the
San Andreas Fault?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Compression
Shearing
Tension
Hotspot
14. Which way is the Pacific Plate
presently moving?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Northeast
Northwest
Southeast
Southwest
15. Iceland is unique because it gives
us a window into…
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Mid-ocean Ridges
Fault Zones
Shield Volcanoes
Hotspots
Collisional
Boundaries
16. These are the Himalayas. Which
plates are involved in forming them?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Gondwana
Laurasia
India
Africa
Asia
17. What is found at the bottom of the
Gulf of California?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Mid-ocean Ridge
Freshwater springs
Ocean Trench
Reverse fault
18. What evidence is there that
this part of Africa is forming a
divergent boundary?
A. Large, deep lakes
B. Long, narrow seas
C. Volcanoes
D. All of the above
19. The Appalachians formed from …
A. A convergent
boundary
B.A divergent boundary
C.A transform boundary
D.Over a hotspot
20. Which of the following WAS
NOT at first used as evidence for
Continental Drift?
A.
C.
B.
21. What is this illustrating?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Earth’s magnetic poles have reversed through geologic time.
Earth’s poles split and meander across the northern hemisphere.
Earth’s poles fluctuate in strength over time.
Continents move across the globe, while the poles move only slightly.
Continents lay fixed while the poles move.
22. What is the process that forms
the volcanoes of the Cascades?
A.Accretion
B.Hotspots
C.Shearing
D.Subduction
23. According to the Theory of Antipodal
Focusing, where most likely is the crater
impact that formed the Hawaii hotspot?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Easter Island
Yellowstone
Galapagos
Lake Victoria
Meteor Crater, Arizona
24. What accounts for the distribution
pattern of known impact craters on
Earth?
A. The Moon has protected the
equatorial regions from
Meteor impacts.
B. The oceans, polar regions,
and most tropical areas have
not been explored for craters.
C. The poles don’t get many
impacts.
D. Meteors are attracted to
temperate areas – the
“Goldilocks Principle”.
25. What present-day continents
collided 230 million years ago to form
the Appalachians?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Africa
Europe
Antarctica
North America
Australia
26. Which of the following mountain
ranges would be represented by figure
A?
27. figure B?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Hawaii
Aleutians
Cascades
Himalayas
Andes
28. This is a diamond mine, a mined out
kimberlite pipe. What geologic process is most
likely responsible for these highly localized
diamond beds?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Subduction
Hotspot
Rifting
Transform fault zone
29. Magnetic Reversals have helped to
prove the Theory of Plate Tectonics by
demonstrating that…
A.
B.
C.
D.
Seafloor spreads
Poles wander
Subduction occurs
Faulting happens
The 1811-1812 New Madrid Earthquakes were an intense intraplate
earthquake series beginning with an initial pair of very large earthquakes on
December 16, 1811. These earthquakes remain the most powerful
earthquakes ever to hit the eastern United States in recorded history.
30. What most likely is the
cause of earthquakes in
the Midwest and along
the Mississippi?
A. Alien subterranean
colonies
B. Nuclear tests
C. Failed rifts long ago
covered by sediment
D. Subduction
E. Hotspot
31. This 220 million year-old fossil of an amphibian’s
upper jaw and palate was unearthed in Antarctica
recently. What best accounts for the fact that a tropical
cold-blooded creature once inhabited this – the deepfreeze of the world?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Amphibians were once able to
handle cooler climates.
Antarctica was closer to the
equator.
Global warming had made
Antarctica much warmer.
The amphibian had lived
somewhere else, and ocean
currents deposited it by
Antarctica.
32. Where is the oldest seafloor?
33. The newest?
Look at the Blue
Globe for
reference
points.
34. What is this formation, found
underneath Chesapeake Bay?
A. Ancient volcano
B. Ancient riverbed
C. Ancient antipodal
hotspot
D. Ancient impact
crater