Types of Plate Boundaries and Evidences of Plate Movements (3017 Edition)

Question 1

Remains of the freshwater reptile _____ have been found in both South America and Africa.

Accepted Answer

Mesosaurus

Question 2

A Triassic land reptile approximately 3m Long have been found in Argentina and South Africa.

Accepted Answer

Cynognathus

Question 3

Example of this is the subduction of Nazca Plate under South America; creating Andes Mountains and Peru Trench.

Accepted Answer

Oceanic - Continental Crust

Question 4

It is the location where two plates meet.

Accepted Answer

Plate Boundary

Question 5

Example of this is the Himalayas Mountains.

Accepted Answer

Continental - Continental Crust

Question 6

After millions of years the oceanic Crust eventually slides down into the oceanic trenches along the _____.

Accepted Answer

Pacific Ocean Basin

Question 7

This was investigated that supports Hess's Theory during the 1960s.

Accepted Answer

Magnetic reversal

Question 8

What are the 3 types of Convergent Boundaries?

Accepted Answer

Oceanic - Continental Crust, Continental - Continental Crust, Oceanic - Oceanic Crust

Question 9

This theory states that the continents were once a large mass of land named Pangaea.

Accepted Answer

Continental Drift Theory

Question 10

The best known example for this boundary is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

Accepted Answer

Divergent Boundary

Question 11

On land, in between a rift is produced forming _____.

Accepted Answer

rift valleys

Question 12

Due to friction, the stress builds up and when it reaches maximum point, energy is released causing the ______.

Accepted Answer

seismic waves or earthquakes

Question 13

The formation of volcanoes and the occurrence of earthquakes likely to happen near these boundaries.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 14

In an/a ____, one of the two plates descending beneath the other.

Accepted Answer

Oceanic - Oceanic Crust, Oceanic - Continental Crust, Continental - Continental Crust

Question 15

It is the place where two plates drift or move apart, and a new crust if formed

Accepted Answer

Divergent Boundary

Question 16

Glaciers covered all or part of each of these continents during the same time period in the geologic past.

Accepted Answer

Evidence from Glaciation

Question 17

These changes have pushed geologists/scientists to provide _______ to explain the causes of these crust movements.

Accepted Answer

evidences

Question 18

The distribution of specific rock types to determine the distribution of climates in ancient times.

Accepted Answer

Evidence from Paleoclimates

Question 19

Fossils of this fern is found in all of the southern continents are proof that they were once joined.

Accepted Answer

Glossopteris

Question 20

The striking similarity of certain fossils found on different continents that once connected with each other.

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Paleontological Evidence

Question 21

The rocks found are identical, of the same type and age. The rocks had formed side by side since the land moved apart.

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Evidence from structure and rock type

Question 22

The collision of the African Plate and the Eurasian Plate; created ranges from the Alps to the Zagros Mountains in Iran.

Accepted Answer

Continental - Continental Crust

Question 23

Example of this is the subduction of Juan de Fuca Plate under North America; creating Cascade Range.

Accepted Answer

Oceanic - Continental Crust

Question 24

It proposed that the seafloor was created at mid-ocean ridges, spreading in both directions from the ridge system.

Accepted Answer

Seafloor Spreading

Question 25

When an/a ____, one that is older and has become denser due to cooling, descends below another plate.

Accepted Answer

Oceanic - Oceanic Crust

Question 26

It is the place where two tectonic plates collide or move towards each other.

Accepted Answer

Convergent Boundary

Question 27

The continents that fit together like puzzle pieces forming one supercontinent known as Pangaea.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 28

In an/a ____, the two plates collide and the denser plate is pushed under the less dense plate.

Accepted Answer

Oceanic - Oceanic Crust, Continental - Continental Crust, Oceanic - Continental Crust

Question 29

Hess suggested that new oceanic crust continuously spreads away from the ridges in a ______.

Accepted Answer

conveyor belt-motion

Question 30

The famous Marianas Trench is an example of this convergence.

Accepted Answer

Oceanic - Oceanic Crust

Question 31

Glaciation in South America, Africa, India, and Australia is best explained if these continents were once connected.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 32

Seafloor Spreading was proposed by an American Geologist, _____ in 1960s.

Accepted Answer

Harry Hess

Question 33

With the heat coming from the inside of the Earth the plates move over _____.

Accepted Answer

long period of time.

Question 34

When two plates descends beneath the other.

Accepted Answer

subduction

Question 35

One that is older and has become denser due to cooling, descends below another plate, hence a _____ is formed.

Accepted Answer

subduction zone

Question 36

The Earth is changing from the past ________.

Accepted Answer

million years

Question 37

The Continental Drift Theory was proposed by _______ in 1915.

Accepted Answer

Alfred Wegener

Question 38

It is the place where two plates sliding horizontally past one another.

Accepted Answer

Transform Boundary

Question 39

In an/a ____, both plates are too light to subduct, a collision occurs; folded, faulted and forms large mountain ranges.

Accepted Answer

Continental - Continental Crust

Question 40

The theory faced with skepticism on its validity.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 41

This provided proof that the crust is being created in both directions from the ridge.

Accepted Answer

Magnetic reversal

Question 42

The creation of new crust and destruction of old oceanic lithosphere happen simultaneously.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 43

Earthquakes and Volcanoes are commonly experienced in this boundary.

Accepted Answer

Convergent Boundary

Question 44

The best known example for this Boundary is the San Andreas Fault Zone.

Accepted Answer

Transform Boundary

Question 45

Effects of this includes ocean trenches, volcanic eruptions and the location of seismic waves at different depths.

Accepted Answer

Oceanic - Continental Crust

Question 46

On sea, the drifting of the plates pushes the magma and fill-up the boundary forming _____.

Accepted Answer

ridges

Question 47

The Earth's _____ is broken down into different tectonic plates that moves in respect to their motions at the surface.

Accepted Answer

Lithosphere

Question 48

A Triassic land reptile have been found in Africa, India and Antarctica.

Accepted Answer

Lystrosaurus

Question 49

Harry Hess believes that the Atlantic Ocean is shrinking while the Pacific Ocean expanding.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 50

What are the 2 Plate Movements?

Accepted Answer

Horizontal, Vertical

Types of Plate Boundaries and Evidences of Plate Movements (3017 Edition)

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Types of Plate Boundaries and Evidences of Plate Movements (3017 Edition)

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