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A quiz about Tectonic Plates

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1
Mountains build when a continental plate meets with a....
Continental plate
A trench
A subduction zone
Oceanic plate
2
What clue helped Wegener to explain continental drift?
The salt content of the oceans
Continents fit like a puzzle
Continents fit like a glove
All rivers flow in the same direction
3
Convection currents occur in
Asthenosphere
Lithosphere
Inner Core
Outer Core
4
How do tectonic plates move in a transform boundary?
Moves in a circular motion
Slide past each other
Towards each other
Away from each other
5
What did Wegener use as evidence of continental Drift?
Animal droppings
Rain patterns
tree sap
fossil clues
6
Who introduced the theory of Continental drift?
Alfred Wegener
Albert Einstein
Josef Handel
Adolf Hitler
7
When an oceanic plate meets a continental plate, this will happen:
Tectonic plates
Mountain building
Subduction
Asthenosphere
8
What is another name for tectonic plates?
Core plates
Asthenospheric plates
Lithospheric plates
mantle plates
9
How do tectonic plates move in a Convergent boundary?
Slide past each other
Move in the same direction
Towards each other
Away from each other
10
What did Wegener name the original landmass?
Barcelona
Fantasia
Pangaea
France
11
How do the tectonic plates move in a divergent boundary?
slide past each other
in a circular motion
Towards each other
Away from each other