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Laing's Plate Tectonics
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1
Tectonic plates float on the...
Lithosphere
Hydrosphere
Asthenosphere
Atmosphere
2
What landforms are produced when tectonic plates move across the Earth's mantle?
mountains
volcanos
trenches
all of the above
3
What do scientists believe is the force behind the Theory of Plate Tectonics?
the Sun's gravity
gravity slab pull
the movement of the planets
convection currents
4
Only the continents are considered part of the lithosphere.
True
False
5
The Himalayas are formed at which type of tectonic plate boundary?
continental-continental collision
oceanic-oceanic subduction
oceanic-continental subduction
oceanic-continental collision
6
Name the scientist who proposed the Theory of Continental Drift
David Attenborough
Charles Darwin
Albert Einstein
Alfred Wegener
7
Sixty percent of volcanoes occur surrounding the Pacific Ocean, a location called
"the Volcano Zone"
"the hot zone"
"the Ring of Fire"
"Mordor"
8
What happens to the oceanic crust at a subducting plate?
It disappears from Earth.
It combines with the other rock.
It passes under the other plate
It passess over the other plate.
9
Along which two plates do we see major earthquake activity?
South American and Nazca
Pacific and North/South American
Pacific and Eurasian/Indian
10
Volcanic island arcs form at
divergent zones
subduction zones
transform zones
11
Name the tectonic plate boundary in the picture
convergent boundary
transform/translation boundary
divergent boundary
12
Volcanos form at convergent boundaries at subduction zones
False
True
13
Wegener used all these lines of evidence, except
Humans living on all continents of the earth
Fossil evidence
climate change evidence
the fit of the continents
14
Wegener's Theory of Continental Drift was replaced by the Theory of
paleomagnetism
crustal forces
plate tectonics
paleomorfism
15
The tectonic plates at a divergent plate boundary.....
slide along each other
move toward each other
converge
move away from each other