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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?

Surface waves

Oceanic waves

Continental waves

Body 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 oceans and mountains

Location of mountain ranges

Location of active volcanoes and earthquake epicenters

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Which type of crust is less dense?

Oceanic

Both oceanic and continental have the same density

Continental

Niether oceanic and continental

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How many recording stations are needed in triangulation method?

3

4

2

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?

Divergent Boundary

None of these

Transform Fault 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.

Paleontological Evidences

Topographic Evidences

Continental Jigsaw Puzzle/Tectonic Fit

Stratigraphic Correlation

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What is the driving fore behind plate tectonics?

Convergence

Subduction

Wegener effect

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?

Convergent boundary

None of these

Transform fault 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.

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.

intensity

power

energy

magnitude

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

tsunamis

volcanism

formation of mountains

seismicity

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

Subduction

Convergent

Divergent

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?

Eurasian Plate

African Plate

Philippine 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 the oldest

Volcano A is older than Volcano C

Volcano B is younger 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?

continental-continental convergence

oceanic-oceanic convergence

oceanic-continental divergence

oceanic-continental convergence

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