Name: ________________________________
Period: __________
Chapter 4 and 5 Review
Multiple Choice: In the space provided, write the letter corresponding to the correct
answer. 1 point each.
1. _____ The San Andreas Fault in California is an example of what type of plate
boundary?
a. Convergent
b. Divergent
c. Transform Fault
d. None of the above
2. _____ Which of the following features would you expect to find at an oceancontinent convergent boundary?
a. Rift Valley
b. Island Arc Formation
c. Ocean Trench
d. All of the above
3. _____ The Hawaiian Islands are the result of what?
a. Mountain Building
b. Hot Spot
c. Island Arc Formation
d. None of the above
4.
_____ The crustal rocks below the fault plane of a normal fault make up the
what?
a. Hanging wall
b. Footwall
c. Fault plane
d. None of the above
5. _____Up and down motions of the crust are called what?
a. Thrust faulting
b. Strain movement
c. Compressional stress
d. Isostatic adjustments
6. _____ Which scientist first proposed that the continents were once joined in a
single landmass?
a. Wegener
b. Hess
c. Seuss
d. Dietz
7. _____ When rocks respond to stress by becoming permanently deformed but not
breaking, the result is the process of what?
a. Compression
b. Divergence
c. Folding
d. Subduction
8. _____ Normal faults form in regions where the crust is doing what?
a. Converging
b. Diverging
c. Shearing
d. None of the above
9. _____ Which of the following was not used by Wegener as evidence of
continental drift?
a. Magnetic anomalies on the seafloor
b. Evidence of similar glacial features on many continents
c. The “puzzle-like” fit of the continents
d. Fossils that were common to many continents
10. _____ An upcurved fold in layers of rock is known as what?
a. Monocline
b. Syncline
c. Anticline
d. None of the above
11. _____This is the only type of crust that can sink (or subduct) into the mantle.
a. Continental
b. Lithospheric
c. Bread
d. Oceanic
12. _____ Presently, this ocean is getting larger due to seafloor spreading.
a. Atlantic
b. Pacific
c. Arctic
d. African
13. _____ A transform fault boundary is also what type of fault?
a. Normal
b. Strike-slip
c. Reverse
d. Thrust
Fill in the blank: In the space provided, write the word or phrase that corrects answers
the question. 2 points each.
14. Movement of the earth’s crust away from an oceanic ridge is called
____________________________.
15. A thrust fault is a type of ____________________________ fault.
16. Along a strike-slip fault, the rock on either side of the fault plane moves
____________________________.
17. The name of the supercontinent that existed about 200 million years ago was
____________________________.
18. Many scientists believe that the movement of lithospheric plates is caused by
____________________________.
19. One example of a continental-continental plate convergence is the
____________________________ mountains.
20. If there is a crack, or break, in rock but the rocks are not moving, the break is
known as a ____________________________.
21. ____________________________ is the result of stress in the rocks of earth’s
crust.
22. Thicker, heavier parts of the crust sink deeper into the asthenosphere due to
____________________________.
23. The type of crustal stress that pushes rocks in opposite horizontal directions is
called ____________________________.
24. ____________________________ is the transfer of heat through movement of
heated fluid material.
25. A ____________________________ generally forms along a subduction zone.
26. A ____________________________ forms in the center of a mid-ocean ridge.
27. ____________________________ is the thicker and less dense type of
lithospheric crust.
28. The ____________________________ includes the earth’s crust and upper
mantle.
True or False: In the space provided, write T if the answer is true. If the answer is false,
write the word or phrase that makes the statement true. 2 points each.
29. _____________________ Compression causes crustal rocks to be pulled apart.
30. _____________________ The layer of “plastic” rock beneath the lithosphere is
called the asthenosphere.
31. _____________________A change in the shape or volume of crustal rock due to
stress is called isostacy.
32. _____________________ Magma is the molten rock that wells up through
fissures in the earth’s crust.
33. _____________________ Plate tectonics cause the lithospheric plates to move.
34. _____________________ Forces that cause deformation of the crust are usually
the result of a change in the volume of the mantle.
35. _____________________ The theory that proposes a possible explanation of why
and how the continents move is called the theory of Relativity.
36. _____________________ A reverse fault moves horizontally.
37. _____________________ When a glacier retreats from an area, the part of the
crust that was formerly ice-covered rises up within the mantle.
38. _____________________ The earth’s inner core is made of molten iron.
39. _____________________ One way to figure out what type of rocks lay under the
ground is core sampling.
40. _____________________ The deepest ocean trench in the world is the Aleutian
trench.
41. _____________________ The thickest layer of the earth is the mantle.
42. _____________________ Conclusive evidence of continental drift is seafloor
spreading.