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6th Grade Review Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics
6th Grade Review Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics
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Review of Chapter 6. The review will focus on key foundations of plate tectonics.
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1
San Andreas fault is an example of this boundary:
Convergent
Transform
Divergent
2
Scientist who came up with the hypothesis of Continental Drift was who?
Alfred Marshall
Alfred Nobel
Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Wegener
3
What plate boundaries are responsible for earthquakes?
Convergent
Divergent
Transform
All three
4
Mountain ranges form at which type of boundary?
divergent
convergent
transform
irregular
5
The surface of the Earth is called the:
core
mantle
crust
6
What tool was used to map the Mid Ocean Ridge by Harry Hess in 1960?
Echolocation
Density
Sonar
Underwater cameras
7
Where does molten material rise from the mantle during sea floor spreading?
earthquakes
Mid Ocean Ridges
faults
Deep Ocean Trenches
8
Convection currents occur in the ____________.
Crust
Inner Core
Outer Core
Mantle
9
Continents were once joined together in a single large landmass called what?
Laurasia
Pangaea
Panthalassa
Gondwana
10
A subduction zone is where two plate do what?
Spread apart to form new crust.
Collide and one is pushed under and destroyed.
Collide and form mountains.
Separate and form new continents.
11
The outermost rigid layer of Earth that includes the crust and the upper mantle is called _____
Oceanic
Mantle
Inner Core
Lithosphere
12
Hypothesis that states that the continents once formed a single Landmass then broke apart:
Lithosphere Displacement
Continental Drift
Laurasia
Plate Movement
13
The picture is an example of what kind of plate boundary?
Convergent
Transform
Uplifting
Divergent
14
Scientists think movement of tectonic plates is caused by which of the following processes?
Radiation
Convection Currents
GPS
None of these
15
Which events occur at plate boundaries?
Earthquakes
Mountain Building
Volcanoes
All of these
16
Underwater mountain chain where sea-floor spreading is called what?
Magnetic Reversals
Mariana Trench
Subduction Zones
Mid-Ocean Ridges
17
A transform boundary is where the plates are
moving apart
colliding together
sliding past each other
18
What is a fault?
The top of the lithosphere
An area in the mantle
The mid ocean ridge
A crack in the earth's crust
19
Where does subduction occur?
Mountains
Mid Ocean Ridges
Deep Ocean Trenches
Canyons
20
This plate is:
Divergent
Transform
Convergent
Used An Elevator
21
Why was Alfred Wegener's theory originally rejected by scientific peers?
He couldn't explain how the continents moved.
He had no evidence.
His theory didn't make any sense.
They already knew the continents could not move.
22
The picture is an example of what kind of plate boundary?
Collision
Divergent
Convergent
Transform
23
Which part of the Earth is in liquid form?
Mantle
Core
Crust
24
The picture is an example of what kind of plate boundary?
Transform
Convergent
Breakage
Divergent
25
At Mid-Ocean Ridges. . . . .
sea-floor spreading occurs.
tectonic plates are colliding.
oceanic lithosphere is destroyed.
the crust is older.
26
The continents are moving away from each other as magma rises from mid-ocean ridges. This is...
sea floor rising
sea floor spreading
underwater volcanos
changing sea floor
