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Quiz Bee Challenge Game (AVERAGE ROUND)

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What makes up the lithosphere?

Core

Mantle

Crust and upper mantle

Crust

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Which type of seismic waves travel through the interior of the earth?

Body waves

Surface waves

Continental waves

Oceanic waves

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What is the basis of scientists in dividing the Earth’s lithosphere into plates?

Location of mountain ranges

Location of active volcanoes and earthquake epicenters

Location of active volcanoes

Location of oceans and mountains

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Which type of crust is less dense?

Oceanic

Both oceanic and continental have the same density

Niether oceanic and continental

Continental

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How many recording stations are needed in triangulation method?

4

2

3

1

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Plates A and B are moving apart at 1.5cm each year. What type of plate boundary do these plates demonstrate?

Convergent Boundary

None of these

Transform Fault Boundary

Divergent Boundary

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The most visible and fascinating evidence that continents were once a single land mass that their borders seem to fit together.

Topographic Evidences

Continental Jigsaw Puzzle/Tectonic Fit

Stratigraphic Correlation

Paleontological Evidences

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What is the driving fore behind plate tectonics?

Convection current

Convergence

Subduction

Wegener effect

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Plates A and B are moving away at 1.5cm each year. What type of plate boundary do these plates demonstrate?

Transform fault boundary

Convergent boundary

None of these

Divergent boundary

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What discovery about the ocean floor is associated with the seafloor spreading? A. Mountains are denser than the mantle B. The rotational poles of the Earth have migrated C. The crust of the Oceans is denser than the crust in the continent.

C

A

B

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It measures the strength of shaking produced by an earthquake at a certain location and a subjective measure of the effects of earthquake on people, structures, and environment.

energy

power

intensity

magnitude

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Which of the following geologic activities does not include among the bases of scientists in dividing Earth’s lithosphere?

volcanism

tsunamis

seismicity

formation of mountains

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Which plate boundary is formed between the Nazca Plate and the South American Plate?

Transform fault

Convergent

Subduction

Divergent

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There are seven relatively large plates in the world. Which of the following does NOT belong to those plates?

Philippine Plate

African Plate

Eurasian Plate

Australian Plate

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In a hotspot volcano, Volcano A is on top of the mantle plume, Volcano B is 10 km farther from A while Volcano C is the farthest. What can you infer about the ages of the volcanoes?

Volcano B is younger than Volcano C

Volcano B is the oldest

Volcano A is older than Volcano C

Volcano B is the youngest

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Which of the following plate movements is the cause of the formation of the Philippine islands?

oceanic-continental divergence

oceanic-oceanic convergence

continental-continental convergence

oceanic-continental convergence

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