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1
Wegener used all these lines of evidence, except
climate change evidence
the fit of the continents
volcanic eription evidence
Fossil evidence
2
What do these volcanoes indicate about plate tectonics in the region?
Diverging plates
Plates moving apart creating seafloor
Plates sliding past each other
Converging plates
3
The European and African plates pushing against each other to form the Alps. This exemplifies
oceanic-continental subduction
oceanic-oceanic subduction
oceanic-continental collision
continental-continental collision
4
A boundary where the blocks have mostly moved horizontally and slide past each other is called
convergent
transform
divergent
5
Along which two plates do we see major earthquake activity?
South American and Nazca
Pacific and Eurasian/Indian
Pacific and North/South American
6
What is Pangaea?
the large landmass in which all continents once were connect
the large landmass that all continents are currently forming
the largest fault found on Earth
Earth's inner core
7
Wegener's Theory of Continental Drift was replaced by the Theory of
crustal forces
paleomorfism
paleomagnetism
plate tectonics
8
What landforms are formed by the movement of the plates?
all of the above
mountains
ocean basins
volcanos
9
What happens to rock around a subducting plate?
It goes under the other plate
It goes over the other plate.
It combines with the other rock.
It disappears from Earth.
10
Volcanos form at convergent boundaries without subduction.
True
False
11
Volcanic island arcs form at
subduction zones
transform zones
divergent zones
12
Pick the BEST answer: Earthquakes occur near __________.
plate boundaries
convergent boundaries
volcanoes
divergent boundaries
13
Plate tectonics can also be the direct cause of forming
oceans
streams
lakes
mountains
14
Tectonic plates float on the...
Atmosphere
Asthenosphere
Lithosphere
Hydrosphere
15
The major movement of the plates and description of plate boundaries of the Earth are...
convergent
transform
divergent
all of these
16
A divergent boundary is a boundary between two plates that
converge
slide along each other
move toward each other
move away from each other
17
Earthquakes occur along transform boundaries, where plates are
sliding past each other
colliding
moving apart
18
The scientists that proposed the theory of continental drift is called
Albert Einstein
Alberto Garcia
Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Wegener
19
What do scientists believe is the force behind the plate tectonics theory?
the Sun's gravity
the movement of the planets
convection currents
gravity slab pull
20
Sixty percent of volcanoes occur surrounding the Pacific Ocean, a location called
"the Volcano Zone"
"the hot zone"
"the Ring of Fire"
21
The slabs of rock known as continents make up the asthenosphere.
True
False
