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Quiz Bee Challenge Game (AVERAGE ROUND)

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What makes up the lithosphere?

Crust and upper mantle

Mantle

Crust

Core

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

Continental waves

Oceanic waves

Body waves

Surface 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 oceans and mountains

Location of active volcanoes

Location of active volcanoes and earthquake epicenters

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Which type of crust is less dense?

Niether oceanic and continental

Oceanic

Both oceanic and continental have the same density

Continental

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How many recording stations are needed in triangulation method?

1

2

4

3

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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

Transform Fault Boundary

None of these

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

Wegener effect

Subduction

Convergence

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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?

Divergent boundary

Convergent boundary

Transform fault boundary

None of these

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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.

A

B

C

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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

power

intensity

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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

Subduction

Divergent

Convergent

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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

Eurasian Plate

African Plate

Philippine 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 younger than Volcano C

Volcano B is the oldest

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-oceanic convergence

continental-continental convergence

oceanic-continental divergence

oceanic-continental convergence

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