Collision of the Plates Lab Review Quiz:
1. What type of boundary occurs between the Nazca Plate and the South American plate?
Convergent
2. What type of boundary occurs between the North American Plate and the African plate?
Divergent
3. Transform boundaries mostly surround the Scotia Plate. Which direction is the Scotia
plate moving compared to the South American plate? Past each other
4. At a convergent plate boundary where the oceanic crust and continental crust collide,
the oceanic crust is below the continental crust. This occurs between the Subducted
Juan de Fuca and North American Plate
5. What landform is created by a divergent plate boundary? Ridge
6. Which of these geologic events is most closely associated with a transform plate
boundary: Earthquake
7. Which of these geologic events is most closely associated with a convergent plate
boundary between two continental plates? Mountain building
8. Between which two plates would you find a ridge and seafloor spreading occurring?
North American – African plates
Plate Tectonics / Volcanoes & Earthquakes / Earthquakes & Mountains / Mountains Quiz:
1. Name the plates and the type of boundary associated with the San Andreas Fault in
California. Pacific plate, North American plate, transform boundary
2. A magnetometer is a device that is used to measure differences in magnetic fields.
3. The basaltic oceanic crust subducts under the granite continental crust.
4. The crust of the Earth sits on top of the asthenosphere.
5. What was the time period that Dr. Humphrey predicted that the magnetic field reversals
were happening during the Flood? Weekly
6. What is another name for a reverse fault? Thrust fault
7. The type of igneous rocks found in dikes are coarse-grained due to the slow cooling
under the earth.
8. Most batholiths are composed primarily of granite.
9. A dike is caused by magma pushing its way vertically or diagonally through rock layers.
10. What happens when the P waves and the S waves reach the Earth’s core? P waves move
through the core, and S waves do not.
11. In the P-wave shadow zone: P waves are not found, Earthquakes are not recorded, S
waves do not penetrate.
12. The type of fault in lzmit, Turkey, is the same as the San Andreas Fault in California. What
type of fault was it that caused all that damage? Strike-slip fault and transform
13. The measures the amount of energy released in an earthquake. Richter scale
14. Scientists believe the Earth’s inner core is made of metal like meteorites to generate a
magnetic field
15. In liquefaction, the soil begins to . liquify
16. Divergent boundaries are where two oceanic crusts are pulling apart from each other.
17. The Andes Mountains were formed from the collision of the Nazca Plate and the South
American plate.
18. Which fault is important to mountain building? Reverse or thrust fault
19. Fault-block mountains are where large blocks of sedimentary rock layers are uplifted and
tilted.
20. Island arc complexes are mostly andesitic stratovolcanoes formed at active oceanic
margins.
Minerals, Igneous, Sedimentary, & Metamorphic Rocks Quiz:
1. What happens when magma cools slowly in mineral formation? Large crystal grains will
form.
2. What happens when magma cools rapidly in mineral formation? Microscopic crystals will
form.
3. Computers have the mineral in their motherboard. silica
4. What mineral can be identified by double refraction. Calcite
5. Fluorescence is the way certain minerals appear under UV light.
6. Which test is not a test used for identifying minerals? Weight
7. Where do plutonic rocks form? In the Earth below ground
8. The silica content of igneous rock increase as the sample of rock gets lighter in color.
9. Very small crystals in an igneous rock show that it was formed .in a short period of time
10. Andesitic magma has intermediate composition and is formed at a subduction
boundary.
11. Which of the following causes the melting temperature of magma to increase?
Increasing the magnesium content
12. Very small crystals in an igneous rock show that it was formed . in a short period of time
13. The “father of Modern-Day Geology” is known to be . James Hutton
14. Which type of rock forms when molten magma from within Earth cools and solidifies?
Igneous rock
15. Agents of transportation for clastic sedimentary rocks include: Wind, Ice, and Water
16. A(n) is a rock that is formed by the precipitation of minerals after evaporation. evaporite
17. Horizontal layers of sediment are laid down in a process called stratification.
18. How can sedimentary rocks be used commercially? Oil deposits may be found there.
19. What type of sedimentary rock is coal? Organic
20. Clay and silt are the two sediments that make up the sedimentary rock shale.
21. Foliated rocks are formed due to regional metamorphism, intense heat and pressure,
and crystals aligning in bands.
22. Metamorphic rocks are organized and classified by texture.
23. Parallel layers of mica indicate a schistose foliation.
