Plate Tectonics Test Review 2014

What type of plate boundary has plates slide past one another?

What theory states that the continents have separated and moved apart?

Who is considered the father of plate tectonics?

What is the name of the process that creates new oceanic crust at a mid ocean ridge?

True or False: Ocean currents drive Earth's plates.

Which feature forms at a Continental-Continental Convergent boundary?

What type of boundary does a rift valley form?

The San Andreas Fault is an example of what type of boundary?

What type of boundary can form earthquakes?

Volcanoes forming on a continent are usually associated with a...

Where is crust destroyed?

What type of plate boundary has plates separate from one another?

The Andes Mountains in South America are an example of what type of convergent boundary?

Glaciers cut U-Shaped valleys and caused striations (marks) on the rocks

At a divergent boundary under the ocean, where is the oldest crust?

What is the correct term for circular patterns of magma when it heats & cools?

True or False: Many geologists rejected Wegener's idea of continental drift.

What material would come up where the sea floor is spreading?

What was the name of the supercontinent called?

True or False: Oceanic drift is the idea that the continents slowly moved over Earth's surface.

Which type of crust (plate) is most dense?

What is the name of the theory that states that the Earth is broken into rigid blocks?

What type of boundary does a deep ocean trench form?

True or False: A rift valley forms where plates diverge on land.

What is the motion of the Earth's plates like?

When an oceanic and a continental plate collide, which plate subducts under the other?

True or False: As a continent moves towards the north or south poles its climate gets hotter.

Which of the following Earth layers is the least dense?

At what type of plate boundary is a mid-ocean ridge created?

Wegener noticed that similar mountain ranges (belts) matched up.

Wegener used evidence to support his theory, but did he know what caused them to move?

What type of plate boundary has plates collide?