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This activity contains 13 questions.

Question 1
1 Slowly migrating pieces of the Earth's crust that have become attached or accreted to continental plates are called __________.
 
cratons
faults
orogenies
folds
terranes
End of Question 1


Question 2
2 The Basin and Range regions of the western United States are a result of __________.
 
the formation of horsts and grabens
"hot spot" activity
a series of strike-slip faults
the formation of synclines and anticlines
End of Question 2


Question 3
3 Horizontal movement along a fault plane is called a __________ fault.
 
normal
strike-slip
reverse
lateral
End of Question 3


Question 4
4 _________ is an example of first order relief.
 
The Empire State Building
The Tibetan Plateau
The Andes Mountain Range
A continental platform
An oceanic trench
End of Question 4


Question 5
5 The Sierra Nevada of California and the Grand Tetons of Wyoming are examples of __________.
 
tilted fault block mountain ranges
rift valleys
strike-slip faults
horst and graben mountain ranges
synclines and anticlines
End of Question 5


Question 6
6 Volcanism usually does not occur __________.
 
along sea-floor spreading centers
along subduction boundaries where continental and oceanic plates collide
at hot spots
along the convergent boundary where two continental plates collide
End of Question 6


Question 7
7 __________ result(s) from compression stress like that found at convergent plate boundaries.
 
earthquakes
folding
grabens
shield volcanoes
End of Question 7


Question 8
8 Flood basalts are associated with __________.
 
effusive eruptions and hot spots
explosive eruptions and composite volcanoes
effusive eruptions and plug domes
very violent eruptions and pyroclastic material
violent eruptions and shield volcanoes
End of Question 8


Question 9
9 __________ record vibrations in the Earth's crust that may be associated with earthquakes.
 
Focus shock scales
Epicenters
Moment magnitude scales
Richter scales
Seismographs
End of Question 9


Question 10
10 An anticline is a type of __________.
 
fold
terrane
fault
orogeny
shield volcano
End of Question 10


Question 11
11 You are looking down from a helicopter on a small road in the desert. A major earthquake has just split the road, leaving the lanes looking like this. Since there doesn’t seem to be any vertical displacement, this is probably a _________ fault.

fault1.gif

 
reverse
left lateral thrust
normal
right lateral strike-slip
left lateral strike-slip
End of Question 11


Question 12
12 This fault, shown here in a profile (sideview) diagram, would most likely be found in association with a _________ plate boundary.

fault2.jpg

 
convergent
transform
sea floor spreading
regressive
divergent
End of Question 12


Question 13
13 This is a hypothetical map of locations along the San Andreas Fault in California.
strikeslip_fault.gif
Which two locations will move next to each other (become adjacent) in the shortest period of time?
 
Y and W
Y and Z
Z and X
W and Z
V and W
Z and V
End of Question 13






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