1. Which two landforms form as a result of volcano arcs?
  2. Hotspots and superswells
  3. Mountain ranges and island arcs
  4. Island arcs and trenches
  5. Guyots and continental rises
  6. Which is not an example of an island arc?
  7. Hawaiian islands
  8. Aleutian islands
  9. Mariana islands
  10. All of the above are island arcs
  11. What is the general term for locations above the asthenosphere around which volcanoes have been active for a long time?
  12. Guyot
  13. Superswell
  14. AUZs (Asthenospheric Upwelling Zones)
  15. Hotspots
  16. What are the narrow vertical streams of magma that originate in the upper mantle called?
  17. Mantle plumes
  18. Volcanoes
  19. Trench spouts
  20. Countercurrent convective flows
  21. An example of a nematath is?
  22. Aleutian Islands
  23. Cuba
  24. Galapagos Islands
  25. Mariana Islands
  26. Thirty percent of all heat released from the Earth’s inner layers comes from of this area.
  27. Caribbean Sea
  28. Weddell Sea
  29. French Polynesia
  30. Ecuador
  1. What is the name of the theory that states that earthquakes result from plates slipping past each other after a drastic increase in pressure?

w. Plate-Pressure Theory

x. Plate-Tectonic Theory

y. Theory of Seismicity

z. Elastic Rebound Theory

  1. Short Answer What is the name of the point at which an earthquake originates?

Focus

  1. Which type of seismic wave will travel the fastest?

w. pressure wave

x. tertiary wave

y. sinusoidal wave

z. sheer wave

  1. Name the scale used to measure earthquakes.

w. Moh’s

x. Richter

y. seismology

z. Beaufort

  1. Earthquakes are always stronger if which of the following is true of the colliding lithospheric plates?
  2. Thick
  3. Contain iron ore deposits
  4. Old age
  5. High sulfur content
  6. Name the deformations of lithosphere at spreading zones where crust is pulled apart, resulting in faults and fractures.

w. Benioff Zones

x. Seismic Zones

y. Rift Zones

z. Mantle Zones

  1. This plate’s collision with the North American plate has given rise to the Cascade Ranges of North West United States.

w. Vancouver Plate

x. Juan de Fuca Plate

y. Nazca Plate

z. Cocos Plate

  1. Short Answer What is the name of the ocean surrounding Pangaea?

Panthalassa

  1. What is the term for the initial idea that continental plates move across Earth’s surface?
  2. Tectonic plate theory
  3. Pangaea
  4. Continental drift
  5. Island geomorphism
  6. Who initially proposed the idea of plates moving over Earth?
  7. Ferdinand Magellan
  8. Harry Hess
  9. Alfred Wegner
  10. James Cook
  11. When did he come up with it?
  12. 1515
  13. 1715
  14. 1915
  15. 1985
  16. What is Panthalassa?
  17. The ocean surrounding Pangaea.
  18. The deepest point in the Mariana Trench
  19. The upwelling of cool, nutrient-rich waters near the coast of Sri Lanka
  20. The Greek name for the Caspian Sea
  21. Where is/was the Tethys Sea located?
  22. Surrounding Pangaea
  23. Just east of the Mariana Trench
  24. Thirty miles west of the Caspian Sea
  25. Between Laurasia and Gondwanaland
  26. Who proposed that mantle convection causes seafloor spreading?
  27. Ferdinand Magellan
  28. Harry Hess
  29. Alfred Wegner
  30. James Cook
  31. Why do convection cells form?
  32. Residual heat (released as the earth’s core cools)
  33. Radioactivity in mantle
  34. Subduction due to movement at convergent plate boundaries
  35. Release of sediments from manganese nodules
  36. What is the name for the idea that all of Earth’s internal pressures are balanced?
  37. Bathymetry
  38. Isostasy
  39. Tectonism
  40. Equilibrium theory
  41. What is the name for the deformation of crust?
  42. Bathymetry
  43. Isostasy
  44. Tectonism
  45. Equilibrium theory
  46. Name rock type and thickness:
  47. Oceanic Crust basalt (more dense) ~7km
  48. Continental Crust granite (less dense) ~35km
  49. What is the term for the mapping of the sea floor?
  50. Bathymetry
  51. Isostasy
  52. Tectonism
  53. Equilibrium theory
  54. Which of the following was not involved in collecting data about tectonic processes?

w.Deep Sea Drilling Project

x.NOAA Sea-Floor Drilling Project

y.Ocean Drilling Program

1. Which of the following answer choices is the definition of Convergent Boundary?

  1. Plates Sliding past each other
  2. Plates coming towards each other
  3. Plates moving apart

2. What is not an effect of Convergent boundaries?

  1. Trenches form
  2. Volcanoes occur
  3. Rock is destroyed
  4. Rock is created

3. Is rock created or destroyed in a Transform Fault?

It is neither created or destroyed

4. What is the different between Active and Passive margins?

Active Margins describe currently moving tectonic activity; where as passive margins describe plates that are not active.

5. What type of boundary does the process of subduction process occur in?

  1. Transform Fault
  2. Convergent Boundary
  3. Divergent Boundary

6. How are oceanic-oceanic divergent boundaries formed?

Convection currents in the mantle push up the lithosphere, creating a oceanic-oceanic divergent boundary

7. What type of boundary leads to mid-ocean ridges?

  1. Transform Fault
  2. Convergent Boundary

Divergent Boundary