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Quiz Bee Challenge Game (AVERAGE ROUND)

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What makes up the lithosphere?

Core

Crust

Mantle

Crust and upper mantle

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

Surface waves

Body 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

Location of active volcanoes and earthquake epicenters

Location of oceans and mountains

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Which type of crust is less dense?

Continental

Oceanic

Niether oceanic and continental

Both oceanic and continental have the same density

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How many recording stations are needed in triangulation method?

2

3

4

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

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.

Stratigraphic Correlation

Paleontological Evidences

Continental Jigsaw Puzzle/Tectonic Fit

Topographic Evidences

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What is the driving fore behind plate tectonics?

Convergence

Convection current

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?

None of these

Divergent boundary

Transform fault boundary

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.

A

C

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.

magnitude

power

intensity

energy

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

seismicity

tsunamis

formation of mountains

volcanism

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

Subduction

Transform fault

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

Philippine Plate

Eurasian Plate

African 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 youngest

Volcano B is the oldest

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

oceanic-continental convergence

oceanic-oceanic convergence

oceanic-continental divergence

continental-continental convergence

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