Continental Drift and Plate Tectonic Review

Question 1

Both rock and fossil evidence support continental drift.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 2

Which type of boundary is found between the Nazca Plate and the Pacific Plate? (The arrows point away from each other)

Accepted Answer

divergent boundary

Question 3

The plates on Earth resemble a giant cracked egg shell.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 4

The continents were once joined together in a single land mass called...

Accepted Answer

Pangaea

Question 5

Plates slide past one another at which type of boundary?

Accepted Answer

transform boundary

Question 6

This process adds more crust to the ocean floor.

Accepted Answer

sea-floor spreading

Question 7

Alfred Wegener believed that the _____ were once joined together and have since drifted apart.

Accepted Answer

continents

Question 8

When a volcano collapses in on itself, this landform occurs.

Accepted Answer

A caldera

Question 9

Where does subduction occur?

Accepted Answer

deep-ocean trenches

Question 10

Convert 1.55m into mm.

Accepted Answer

1550.0mm

Question 11

Which crust is found below salt water?

Accepted Answer

oceanic crust

Question 12

Which type of crust do we walk on that is above sea-level?

Accepted Answer

continental crust

Question 13

When dating the oceanic crust, the oldest crust is found where?

Accepted Answer

farthest away from the mid-ocean ridge

Question 14

Which is NOT one of the two ways a tsunami can form?

Accepted Answer

Earthquake where two continental plates meet

Question 15

The scientist who proposed the hypothesis of continental drift is...

Accepted Answer

Alfred Wegener

Question 16

Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift was NOT accepted at first due to...

Accepted Answer

he didn't know how the continents drifted

Question 17

Which type of plate boundary occurs when two plates move away from each other?

Accepted Answer

divergent boundary

Question 18

Which force in Earth drives plate tectonics?

Accepted Answer

convection currents

Question 19

The longest mountain ranges on Earth are formed at the...

Accepted Answer

mid-ocean ridges

Question 20

Which type of plate boundary has two plates moving together?

Accepted Answer

convergent boundary

Questions 20