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1
Most tectonic plates move at rates of
centimeters per year.
centimeters per second.
meters per second.
meters per year.
2
Which of the following types of boundaries results in the creation of ocean trenches?
Divergent
Transform
Subduction
Convergent
3
Which of the following types of boundaries results in the creation of mountain ranges?
Transform
Subduction
Convergent
Divergent
4
Which of the following types of boundaries is where a “new” seafloor is produced?
Convergent
Divergent
Subduction
Transform
5
What evidence supports that all of today's continents were once part of a single continent?
Today's continents fit together like a puzzle
all of these
Different continents have similar types of rocks.
Similiar fossils have been found on different continents.
6
Earth's tectonic plates
are constantly in motion
do not move
move only once
move only up and down.
7
Continental-continental collision will most likely produce a ____.
mountain
new continent
new ocean
rift valley/mid-ocean ridge
8
Which of the following types of plate boundaries would produce the most significant earthquake?
Transform
Convergent
Subduction
Divergent
9
What was the name of the scientist that developed the Theory of Continental Drift?
Alfred Wegener
Robert Hooke
Antonie Leewenhoek
Gregor Mendel
10
How long did it take for the tectonic plates to change the number of continents on Earth.
centuries
decades
thousands of years.
millions of years
11
What is the result of two plates moving together causing one plate to descend beneath the other
ridge
subduction
trench
volcano
12
The movements of Earth's plates can move thousands of kilometers across the Earth's surface
occur gradually over millions of years.
do not change the Earth's surface at all.
occur due to human activity.
occur in one sudden movement.
13
Pangaea, in the continental drift hypothesis, can also be referred to as a ___.
supercontinent
subduction
geosphere
plate
14
What kind of plate boundary moves in opposite directions and creates valleys?
convergent boundary
transform boundary
divergent boundary
15
Which of the following results when two continental plates slide past each other?
subduction zone
volcanic island
earthquake
mountain
16
7. Which of following continents match up with South America to prove the continental puzzle?
North America
Europe
Africa
Australia
17
Judging from the diagram, where are most ocean trenches located?
at the center of oceanic plates
at the boundary between two plates
beneath very wide mountain ranges
at the center of continental plates
