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Plate Tectonics & Plate Boundaries
Plate Tectonics & Plate Boundaries
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This review will focus on key foundations of plate tectonics.
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1
Which type of evidence was NOT used by Alfred Wegener to support continental drift?
evidence from human remains
evidence from landforms
evidence from fossils
evidence from climate
2
The outermost rigid layer of Earth that includes the crust and the upper mantle is called _____
Lithosphere
Oceanic
Inner Core
Mantle
3
What is the correct order (starting from the surface) of Earth's layers?
mantle, outer core, inner core, crust
crust, outer core, inner core, mantle
outer core, inner core, crust, mantle
crust, mantle, outer core, inner core
4
The geological theory of _____states that pieces of Earth’s crust are in constant, slow motion.
Convection Currents
Pangea
Plate Tectonics
Radiation
5
Underwater mountain chain where sea-floor spreading is called what?
Mid-Ocean Ridges
Subduction Zones
Mariana Trench
Magnetic Reversals
6
Continents were once joined together in a single large landmass called what?
Laurasia
Gondwana
Panthalassa
Pangaea
7
Scientist who came up with the hypothesis of Continental Drift was who?
Alfred Nobel
Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Marshall
Alfred Wegener
8
Convection currents in the mantle are caused by differences in what?
Composition
Temperature and Density
Mass and Heat
Density and Hardness
9
Earth's magnetic field is a result of movement in the....
outer core
mantle
inner core
crust
10
What are two different types of crust?
Laurasia/Gondwana
Lithosphere/Mesosphere
Continental/Oceanic
Nazca/Eurasian
11
The picture is an example of what kind of plate boundary?
Divergent
Convergent
Breakage
Transform
12
What plate boundaries are responsible for earthquakes?
All three
Transform
Divergent
Convergent
13
A subduction zone is where two plate do what?
Collide and form mountains.
Collide and one is pushed under and destroyed.
Spread apart to form new crust.
Separate and form new continents.
14
At Mid-Ocean Ridges. . . . .
the crust is older.
sea-floor spreading occurs.
tectonic plates are colliding.
oceanic lithosphere is destroyed.
15
How do scientists know about the structure of the Earth’s interior?
By Lowering Cameras
Seismic Waves from Earthquakes
Used An Elevator
Using Meter Sticks
16
Where does a rift valley form?
at a deep-ocean trench
at a divergent boundary
at a transform boundary
at a convergent boundary
17
Which part of the Earth is in liquid form?
Crust
Outer Core
Inner Core
Mantle
18
The picture is an example of what kind of plate boundary?
Divergent
Collision
Transform
Convergent
19
Hypothesis that states that the continents once formed a single Landmass then broke apart:
Lithosphere Displacement
Continental Drift
Plate Movement
Laurasia
20
The picture is an example of what kind of plate boundary?
Divergent
Convergent
Uplifting
Transform
21
Convection currents occur in the ____________.
Atmosphere
Mantle
Asthenosphere
Inner Core
22
Continental-Continental,Oceanic-Oceanic,Continental-Oceanic are what plate boundary type?
Transform
Convergent
Divergent
