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Quiz Bee Challenge Game (AVERAGE ROUND)

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What makes up the lithosphere?

Crust

Crust and upper mantle

Core

Mantle

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

Body waves

Oceanic waves

Continental waves

Surface waves

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

Location of oceans and mountains

Location of active volcanoes

Location of active volcanoes and earthquake epicenters

Location of mountain ranges

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Which type of crust is less dense?

Both oceanic and continental have the same density

Continental

Oceanic

Niether oceanic and continental

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How many recording stations are needed in triangulation method?

1

3

2

4

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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

Divergent Boundary

None of these

Transform Fault 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.

Continental Jigsaw Puzzle/Tectonic Fit

Paleontological Evidences

Topographic Evidences

Stratigraphic Correlation

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What is the driving fore behind plate tectonics?

Subduction

Convergence

Convection current

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

Divergent boundary

None of these

Convergent 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

B

A

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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

magnitude

intensity

power

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

seismicity

volcanism

tsunamis

formation of mountains

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

Convergent

Divergent

Subduction

Transform fault

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

Australian Plate

Philippine Plate

African Plate

Eurasian 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 A is older than Volcano C

Volcano B is the youngest

Volcano B is the oldest

Volcano B is younger than Volcano C

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

oceanic-oceanic convergence

continental-continental convergence

oceanic-continental divergence

oceanic-continental convergence

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