Plate Tectonics, And Continental Drift
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- 1.The lithosphere is made up of
- A.
The upper and lower mantle.
- B.
The inner and outer core.
- C.
The crust and upper mantle.
- D.
The crust and core.
- 2.At a divergent plate boundary...
- A.
The plates move apart.
- B.
The plates collide.
- C.
The plates slide past one another.
- D.
The plates do not move.
- 3.Alfred Wegner named the one large continent
- A.
Gondwandaland
- B.
Pangaea
- C.
Eurasia
- 4.The animal fossil that helped support the theory of continental drift is called
- A.
Mesosauraus
- B.
Glossopteris
- C.
Metosanous
- D.
Glossoplanits
- 5.Select which answer is false...The theory of plate tectonics is
- A.
A theory that states the earth's crust is broken into plates that float on the asthenosphere.
- B.
A combination of the seafloor spreading theory and the continental drift theory.
- C.
Is the idea that the continents are slowly drifting further away from each other.
- 6.The zone where one plate slides under another is called the
- A.
Convergent zone
- B.
Subduction zone
- C.
Plate
- 7.The entire cycle of heating occurring in the mantle is called
- A.
Convection currents
- B.
Compound currents
- C.
Heat currents
- 8.The plate boundary where plates slide past each other is called
- A.
Convergent boundary
- B.
Divergent boundary
- C.
Colliding boundary
- D.
Transform boundary
- 9.Alfred Wegner's theory of the continental drift was not accepted because
- A.
It could not explain how or why the continents were drifting.
- B.
He could not provide evidence for the continental drift.
- 10.Continental crust is
- A.
More dense than oceanic crust.
- B.
Less dense than oceanic crust.
- C.
Has the same density as oceanic crust.
- 11.An example of a divergent boundary is
- A.
The San Andreas Fault
- B.
The Himalaya Mountains.
- C.
The mid-ocean ridge.
- 12.When two oceanic plates collide a(n) _________________ is formed.
- A.
Volcano
- B.
Earthquake
- C.
Trench
- D.
Island arc.
- 13.____________ can form above subduction zones.
- A.
Earthquakes
- B.
Trenches
- C.
Volcanoes
- D.
Oceans
- 14.The following are all types of plate boundaries except
- A.
Convergent boundary
- B.
Divergent boundary
- C.
Translate boundary
- D.
Transform boundary
- 15.When looking at mid ocean ridges, the oldest rocks are
- A.
In the middle.
- B.
Found close to the rift zone.
- C.
Found far from the mid ocean ridges.
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