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Continental Drift/ Sea Floor Spreading
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1
What is it called when oceanic crust goes down into the mantle under the continental crust?
sublimation
superposition
subduction zone
A. Divergent boundary
2
What is the name of the supercontinent when all the continents were connected?
Godwana
Panama
Pangaea
Laurasia
3
Magma that turns into rock at the mid ocean ridge, has iron crystals that record
Earth's magnetism
Earth's gravity
Earth's History
Earth's cosmic rays
4
Evidence for sea floor spreading has come from
magnetic minerals on the ocean floor.
changes in the depth of the ocean
ancient climate conditions.
the breakup of Pangaea.
5
Which one of the following is
not
an evidence for sea floor spreading?
Age of the Rocks
Magnetic Pattern
Type of Rock
6
The oceanic crust is thicker and more dense than the continental crust.
False
True
7
Which one of the following is
not
evidence for a one time supercontinent.
Mountain Ranges
Glacier Marks
Magnetism
Fossils
8
The Pacific Ocean is
Contracting
Expanding
9
Which one of the following is not in the mid ocean ridge?
Ocean Trench
Volcanic Activity
Rift Valley
New Rock
10
What force is cited as the driving force that moves the ocean plates?
Ocean Currents
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Convection Currents
11
Alfred Wegener showed that the sea floor was spreading and moved the continents
True
False
12
The mid ocean ridge is which one of the following?
Convergent Boundary
Divergent Boundary
13
Alfred Wegener used
sonar
to help him determine if the continents were moving.
True
False
14
What type of boundary is it when an ocean plate meets a continental plate?
Divergent
Convergent
Subduction
Insurgent
15
What feature is usually found over subduction zones?
All of these
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Mountain Ranges
16
Apparently, the earth's magnetic poles have reversed in the past.
True
False
17
The presence of coal in Antarctica means that this continent must have
changed climate
had tropical weather
all of these
moved over time
18
Which scientist proposed that the ocean floor was expanding around mid ocean ridges?
Alfred Neuman
Alfred Wegener
Albert Einstein
Harry Hess
19
New oceanic lithosphere forms as a result of
normal polarity
sea floor spreading
reverse polarity
continental drift
20
The process that takes place at the mid-ocean ridges.
magnetic reversal
sea floor sprading
fossils
continental drift