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Continental Drift + Plate Tectonics
Continental Drift + Plate Tectonics
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1
What type of plates slide past one another?
plate tectonics
convergent plate boundary
divergent plate boundary
transform plate boundary
2
What was the name of Alfred Wegener's supercontinent?
pangaea
north america
fossil
continental drift
3
Which theory states that all continents were once joined together and have drifted apart?
sea floor spreading
continental drift
wagner
plate tectonics
4
True or False: Many geologists rejected Wegener and his idea of continental drift.
False
True
5
Which land feature(s) can form at a convergent boundary?
volcanic mountain
volcanic island
mountain range
all of the above
6
Which theory came FIRST?
continental spreading
continental drift
plate tectonics
seafloor spreading
7
Wegener noticed that which two continents had similar mountain ranges?
South America and Africa
North America and Europe
Antarctica and Australia
Africa and Asia
8
True or False: The plates are on top of the asthenosphere.
True
False
9
Wegener's evidence included all EXCEPT........
glacier evidence in India
continents looked like puzzle pieces
matching mountains on different continents
coal in Africa
10
Which two continents best fit together like a puzzle?
Europe and Asia
Africa and South America
Africa and Australia
North America and Europe
11
The plates are moving because of convection currents in Earth's.......
mantle
crust
inner core
outer core
12
What type of plates collide?
convergent plate boundary
transform plate boundary
divergent plate boundary
plate tectonics
13
Where is magma coming out of the Earth's crust in the middle of the oceans?
convergent boundaries
trenches
transform boundaries
mid-ocean ridge
14
How fast are the plates moving?
a little slow
fairly quickly
very slow
super speed
15
What is the future fate of California?
it will subduct underneath the rest of the United States
it will continue to crash into the rest of the United States
it will slowly slide off North into the Pacific Ocean
it will slowly slide off South into the Pacific Ocean
16
True or False: A divergent plate boundary is happening on the east side of Africa.
False
True
17
The _______________________ is broken up into several large pieces called plates.
inner core
lithosphere/crust
outer core
asthenosphere/mantle
18
What type of plates separate from one another?
transform plate boundary
convergent plate boundary
plate boundary
divergent plate boundary
19
When an ocean plate sinks down below another plate, what process had occurred?
seafloor spreading
divergentation
subduction
trenching
20
What is the name of the theory from the 1960's that states that Earth has plates that move?
magnetic reversal
plate tectonics
continental drift
divergent plate boundary
