QR Challenge: Plate Tectonics Quiz

Created using the ClassTools QR Treasure Hunt Generator

Teacher Notes

A. Prior to the lesson:

1. Arrange students into groups. Each group needs at least ONE person who has a mobile device.

2. If their phone camera doesn't automatically detect and decode QR codes, ask students to

• Download a QR reader (e.g. I-Nigma | NeoReader | Kaywa) onto their mobile devices
• Bring these devices into the lesson.

3. Print out the QR codes.

4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.

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B. The lesson:

1. Give each group a clipboard and a piece of paper so they can write down the decoded questions and their answers to them.

2. Explain to the students that the codes are hidden around the school. Each team will get ONE point for each question they correctly decode and copy down onto their sheet, and a further TWO points if they can then provide the correct answer and write this down underneath the question.

3. Away they go! The winner is the first team to return with the most correct answers in the time available. This could be within a lesson, or during a lunchbreak, or even over several days!

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C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS

4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.

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Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question	Answer
1. Which of the following was created by a continental-continental convergent boundary? a.The Mid-Atlantic Ridge b.The Ring of Fire c.The Himalaya Mountains	c. The Himalaya Mountains
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3. This landform was created as the result of what type of boundary? a. continental-oceanic convergent b. oceanic-oceanic convergent c. divergent	a. continental-oceanic convergent
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5. What is an example of a geographical place formed by an oceanic-oceanic convergent boundary? a. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge b. The Ring of Fire c. the Caribbean Islands	c.The Caribbean Islands
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7. At which type of boundary was the Mid-Atlantic Ridge formed? a.oceanic-oceanic convergent b.continental-continental convergent c.divergent	c. divergent
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9. What is this type of boundary? a.transform b.divergent c.continental-continental convergent	a.transform
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11. Which of the following is located at a transform boundary? a.The Alpine Fault b.The Mariana Trench c. The Ring of Fire	a.The Alpine Fault
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13. What happens to the plates at a convergent boundary? a. They move apart. b.;They move parallel to each other in opposite directions. c.They collide with each other.	c. They collide with each other
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15. What is formed at convergent boundaries? a. folded moiuntains and volcanoes b.volcanic island and deep-sea trenches c.all of the above	c.all of the above
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17. What plate boundary involves two plates moving away from each other? a.continental-continental convergent b.divergent c.transform	b.divergent
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19. What is formed at divergent boundaries? a.volcanic mountains and volcanic island arcs b.deep-sea trenches and fault lines c.rift valleys and mid-ocean ridges	c.rift valleys and mid-ocean ridges
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21. What happens to the plates at a transform boundary? a. They do nothing b.They slide past each other in opposite directions. c.They move up and down.	b.They slide past each other in opposite directions.
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23. What do transform boundaries cause? a.Earthquakes and fault lines b.Folded mountains c.None of the above.	a. Earthquakes and fault lines
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25. Which of the Earth’s layers is made up of dense rocks that are rich in iron? a.mantle b.core c. crust	a.mantle
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27. What plate do we live on? a.Eurasian Plate b.Nazca Plate c.North American Plate	c.North American Plate
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29. Pangea, a supercontinent, broke up into two smaller land masses. What are their names? a.Laurasia and Glossopteris b.Gondasia and Laurasia c.Gondwanaland and Laurasia	c. Gondwanaland and Laurasia

 

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