Plate Tectonics Review

What is the name of the new oceanic crust at a mid ocean ridge as old oceanic crust moves away?

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

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

What type of boundary does a rift valley form?

What type of boundary most commonly produces earthquakes?

What states that all continents were once joined together and have drifted apart?

Wegener noticed that which two continents had similar mountain ranges?

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

What type of plate boundary slides horizontally past each other?

T or F: Wegener used evidence from land features, fossils, and climate to support his theory.

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

What type of boundary has plates that move together?

What was the name of the super continent?

What type of boundary separates from one another?

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

True or False: Breaks in the crust called faults form when plates meet.

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

What is the name of the theory that states that Earth's plates are in slow, constant motion?

What type of boundary does a deep ocean trench form?

Wegener noticed that which two continents had similar fossils of ancient animals?

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

True or False: Pangaea existed on Earth between 250 and 300 million years ago.

True or False: Mesosaurus and Lystrosaurus were ancient plants.

Which feature forms at a convergent boundary?

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