Chapter 7 Test Review

Chapter 7 Test Review

Multiple Choice

The longest mountain chain in the world is a mid-ocean ridge in the Pacific Ocean.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

The circulation of material cause by difference in density is called convection.

• True

• False

Convection

Circulation of material caused by differences in temperature and density.

Multiple Choice

The lithosphere is below the core and above the mantle.

• True

• False

Lithosphere

Cold, rigid outermost rock layer of Earth

Multiple Choice

The youngest rocks on the ocean floor are located...

• near continents

• at the mid-ocean ridge

• far from mid-ocean ridges

• near Asia

Mid-Ocean Ridge

Mountain range located on the seafloor in the middle of the ocean.

Multiple Choice

Plates of the lithosphere float on the...

• crust

• mantle

• core

• atmosphere

Mantle

Multiple Choice

The hypothesis that continents have moved slowly to their current locations is called...

• continental drift

• continental slope

• magnetic reversal

• convection

Continental Drift

Hypothesis that continents are in constant motion on the surface of Earth.

Multiple Choice

Plates move apart at _____ boundaries.

• convergent

• stable

• divergent

• transform

Divergent Plate Boundary

Forms where two plates separate.

Multiple Choice

Plates slide past each other at ____ boundaries.

• subduction zones

• convection currents

• transform boundaries

• divergent boundaries

Transform Plate Boundaries

Forms where two plates slide by each other.

Multiple Choice

The boundary between two plates moving together is called a...

• divergent boundary

• transform boundary

• convergent boundary

• lithosphere

Convergent Plate Boundary

Forms where two plates collide.

Multiple Choice

Seafloor spreading occurs because...

• new material is being added to the asthenosphere

• earthquakes break apart the ocean floor

• sediments accumulate at the area of spreading

• molten material beneath Earth's crust rises to the surface

Seafloor Spreading

The process by which new oceanic crust forms along a mid-ocean ridge and older oceanic crust moves away from the ridge.

Multiple Choice

What plate are the Appalachian Mountains found on?

• North American

• African

• Indo-Australian

• Eurasia

North American Plate

Multiple Choice

____ are formed when two continental plates collide.

• mountains

• rift valleys

• strike slip faults

• mid-ocean ridges

Mountains

Multiple Choice

What kind of boundary is found between the Nazca Plate and the South American Plate?

• convergent plate boundary

• divergent plate boundary

• transform plate boundary

• lithosphere

Convergent Plate Boundary

Forms where two plates collide.

Multiple Choice

What kind of boundary is between the North American Plate and the Eurasian Plate?

• convergent plate boundary

• divergent plate boundary

• transform plate boundary

• lithosphere

Divergent Plate Boundary

Forms where two plates separate.

Multiple Choice

____ is a fossil fern that helped support Wegener's theory of continental drift.

• Gondwanaland

• Kannemeyeria

• Mesosaurus

• Glossopteris

Glossopteris

Is a fossil fern that helped support Wegener's theory of continental drift.

Multiple Choice

Features found at divergent plate boundaries include...

• mid-ocean ridges

• deep-sea trenches

• crumpled mountains

• island arc volcanoes

Mid-Ocean Ridge

Mountain range located on the seafloor in the middle of the ocean.

Multiple Choice

Crust is neither created or destroyed at what type of boundary?

• divergent boundary

• convergent boundary

• transform plate boundary

• lithosphere

Transform Plate Boundary

Forms where two plates slide by each other.

Multiple Choice

Wegener's hypothesis of ___ stated that Earth's continents had once been joined as a single landmass.

• plate tectonics

• seafloor spreading

• continental drift

• subduction

Continental Drift

Hypothesis that continents are in constant motion on the surface of Earth.

Multiple Choice

The ___ states that Earth's surface is made of rigid slabs of rock, or plates, that move with respect to each other.

• theory of plate tectonics

• seafloor spreading

• continental drift

• subduction

Theory of Plate Tectonics

Earth's surface is made of rigid slabs of rock, or plates, that move with respect to each other.

Multiple Choice

___ occurs when one tectonic plate descends beneath another one.

• subduction

• convection

• divergent boundary

• ridge push

Subduction

Sinking of a denser plate below a more buoyant plate at a convergent plate boundary.

Multiple Choice

The arrows in the mantle in a circular path indicate the movement of ___ below the plates.

• convergent boundaries

• lithosphere

• slab pull

• convection currents

Convection

Circulation of material caused by differences in temperature and density

Multiple Choice

How were the Andes Mountains range and the Himalayas formed similarly?

• Both formed at convergent boundaries

• Both formed at divergent boundaries

• Both formed at transform boundaries

• There is no similarity

Convergent Boundary

Multiple Choice

What was the one piece of evidence that Alfred Wegener lacked in his hypothesis?

• He couldn't find fossils that matched on separate continents

• He couldn't find rock pieces that matched up on separate continents

• He couldn't find rock pieces that matched up on separate continents

• He couldn't explain how or why the continents moved

Multiple Choice

What is true of the frame picture from below?

• India was always in the northern hemisphere

• South America was always connected to North America

• Antarctica drifted more to the south as time went on

• Australia is now in the Northern Hemisphere

Multiple Choice

The ___ states that Earth's surface is made of rigid slabs of rock, or plates, that move with respect to each other.

• theory of plate tectonics

• seafloor spreading

• continental drift

• subduction