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Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics Quiz Review
Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics Quiz Review
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1
What are the 2 continents that will fit together?
Africa & Australia
Europe & Asia
North America & South America
South America & Africa
2
Which one is not a type of Convergent boundary?
core-mantle
Continental-Continental
Oceanic-Continental
Oceanic-Oceanic
3
What is continental drift?
Continents rise
Continents move very quickly
Continents move very slowly, centimeters per year
Continents stay still and do not move
4
Who was the scientist who came up with the theory of continental drift?
Isaac Newton
Rosalind Franklin
Charles Darwin
Alfred Wegener
5
The lithosphere is made of the ______ and _____?
Crust and mantle
only the crust
Crust and Core
Mantle and core
6
At what boundary type is new lithosphere created?
Divergent
Transform
Lithosphere
Convergent
7
Alfred Wegener believed that the earth moved _______ per year over millions of years.
100 miles
kilometers
centimeters
miles
8
What are the 3 types of plate boundaries? Check all that apply.
Divergent, Convergent, & Transform
None of them listed
Continental drift, plates, and rift valleys
Continental, Oceanic & Subduction
9
What is an example of a transform boundary?
Yellowstone Volcano
San Andreas Fault
Marina Trench
Sierra Nevadas
10
Oceanic crust is dense due to _________?
Volcanos
Lava
Water Pressure
Air
11
What are the pieces of evidence for continental drift? Check ALL that apply.
Similar rock types and mountain ranges
Fossil evidence & ancient climate evidence
all of them
Geographic fit of the continents
12
At a continental-continental boundary, what is formed?
Trench
Rift Valley
Mountains
Volcanos
13
What happens at a Transform boundary?
The two plates slide past each other
They do not move
The two plates pull away
The two plates collide
14
At a divergent boundary, plates will move......?
Not move at all
Towards each other
Move sideways, pass each other
Away from each other
15
Which type of crust is thin but dense?
Continental Crust
Oceanic Crust
16
Pangea is said to be the ancient supercontinent? True of False
False
True
17
When oceanic crust and continental crust collide, what happens?
Continental crust goes under because its denser
They both move away from each other
Oceanic crust goes underneath because it is denser
Oceanic crust goes on top of the continental crust
18
Plate tectonics move because of _________?
Convection in the mantle
Magnetic forces
Strong winds