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Plate Tectonics - Jackson and Parker?
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1
Which Sea-floor feature is a result of diverging plate boundaries?
Coral Reefs
Deep sea trenches
Continental Shelves
Mid-Ocean Ridge and Rifts
2
Sixty percent of volcanoes occur surrounding the Pacific Ocean, a location called
"the Ring of Fire"
"the hot zone"
"Mordor"
"the Volcano Zone"
3
Name the tectonic plate boundary in the picture
convergent boundary
divergent boundary
transform/translation boundary
4
Theory that continents are in constant motion
Plate Tectonics
Pangaea
Seafloor Spreading
Continental Drift
5
Ancient super continent composed of land that forms todays continents
Continental Drift
Gondwanaland
Pangaea
North America
6
The Himalayas are formed at which type of tectonic plate boundary?
oceanic-continental collision
continental-continental collision
oceanic-continental subduction
oceanic-oceanic subduction
7
Seafloor spreading is responsible for producing...
mid-ocean ridge and rift systems
the Hawian Islands
convection currents
the magnetosphere
8
The tectonic plates at a divergent plate boundary.....
converge
slide along each other
move toward each other
move away from each other
9
Tectonic plates float on the...
Atmosphere
Asthenosphere
Hydrosphere
Lithosphere
10
The study of mapping the surfaces of the ocean floor, similar to topography is known as...
Bathymetry
Ocean Zones
Salinity
Density
11
Wegener used all these lines of evidence, except
Fossil evidence
climate change evidence
the fit of the continents
Humans living on all continents of the earth
12
Theory that earth's surface is made of rock plate that moves
Theory of Seafloor Spreading
Theory of Plate Tectonics
Divergent Plate Boundaries
Convergent Plate Boundaries
13
Where is the majority of earthquake activity found?
Only where three or more plates meet
Along plate boundaries
In the middle of plates
14
Name the scientist who proposed the Theory of Continental Drift
David Attenborough
Albert Einstein
Charles Darwin
Alfred Wegener
15
Wegener's Theory of Continental Drift was replaced by the Theory of...
pangea
crustal forces
plate tectonics
16
What landforms are produced when tectonic plates move across the Earth's mantle?
mountains
ocean basins
all of the above
volcanos
