This document provides instructions and questions for a geology quiz. It explains that students should number their answers and use science vocabulary. Questions cover topics like plate tectonics, volcanoes, ocean ridges, and the ring of fire. Students are prompted to write full sentences for some answers and describe processes using terms like subduction, magma, and sea floor spreading. Halloween-themed bonus questions are included at the end for extra credit.
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All About Plate Tectonics
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2. 1) What is A? 2) What is B? 3) Explain how this illustration is demonstrating convergent boundaries. A B
3. 4. What is D? 5. What is C? 6. What is the material coming out of the volcano C 7) Using the following terms (subduction, magma, island, trench) describe what is happening here. Write in complete sentences. D.
4. 8. What is the Ring of Fire? 9. What causes the Ring of Fire? Write in full sentences which include the following vocabulary: sea floor spreading, subduction, oceanic crust, continental crust, magma, midocean ridge, lithopshere
5. 10) What causes Ocean Ridges and what is happening at these sites? Write in full sentences and use appropriate vocabulary.
6. 11) What is meant by the major tectonic plates? Write in full sentenses. 12) Explain why even while new material is always being added to the ocean’s crust, the Planet Earth stays the same size? Write in full sentences. 13) What vocabulary word best describes the process the keeps the Earth always the same size despite the continual addition of new material.
8. 15. Explain how what you see in this illustration is related to what you wrote about in the Previous slide (which is reproduced here). Write in full sentences; use the terms related to boundaries and continental plates.
9. A. 16) What vocabulary word best describes what A is pointing to? 17) What vocabylary world best describes the process being shown at C. 18) In complete sentences, explain C. C.
10. 19) In complete sentences, explain why there is magma from the mantle found in the mountains or islands shown above.
11. Answer all 4 correctly for F.B. Credit (notes these are Halloween related answers) Signs of a ________ are a unibrow, hairy palms, long canines, and a long middle finger, pointy ears. ________ are mythical beings who defy death by sucking the blood of humans. ____________ were once believed to be a shape that witches could assume If you see a ___________ (hint it's an arthropod) on Halloween, it is the spirit of departed relative or friend watching over you.