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Quiz Bee Challenge Game (AVERAGE ROUND)

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What makes up the lithosphere?

Core

Crust

Crust and upper mantle

Mantle

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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 active volcanoes

Location of active volcanoes and earthquake epicenters

Location of mountain ranges

Location of oceans and mountains

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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

4

2

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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?

None of these

Transform Fault Boundary

Divergent Boundary

Convergent 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.

Stratigraphic Correlation

Topographic Evidences

Paleontological Evidences

Continental Jigsaw Puzzle/Tectonic Fit

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What is the driving fore behind plate tectonics?

Wegener effect

Convergence

Subduction

Convection current

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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

None of these

Convergent boundary

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

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.

magnitude

power

energy

intensity

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

formation of mountains

seismicity

tsunamis

volcanism

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

Divergent

Subduction

Convergent

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?

African Plate

Philippine Plate

Australian 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 B is the oldest

Volcano B is the youngest

Volcano B is younger than Volcano C

Volcano A is older 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

oceanic-continental convergence

continental-continental convergence

oceanic-continental divergence

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