Brain Pop Plate Tectonics

Brain Pop Plate Tectonics

By Hannah Mawyer

Multiple Choice

What is the name of the 225 million year old super continent?

• Pancake

• Pangea

• Super Continent Sam

• Albert Einstein

Multiple Choice

How first identified the theory of plate tectonics and Pangea?

• Albert Einstein

• Patrick Henry

• Alfred Wegener

• Mr. Harris

Multiple Select

What are two pieces of evidence that support the theory of plate tectonics?

• Matching rocks/fossils on different continents

• Landscapes that look alike

• The same species live in different areas today

• Seafloor Spreading

Multiple Choice

The lithosphere is one smooth, solid shell around the Earth.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

In convection currents, hot material ______ and then cool material _____.

• 1) Rises

  2) Sinks

• 1) Sinks

  2) Rises

Multiple Choice

Convergent boundaries occur when:

• Two plates pull apart

• Two plates collide

• Two plates scrape/slide past each other

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Divergent boundaries occur when:

• Two plates pull apart

• Two plates collide

• Two plates scrape/slide past each other

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Transform boundaries occur when:

• Two plates pull apart

• Two plates collide

• Two plates scrape/slide past each other

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Subduction zones occur when:

• Two plates collide at and convergent boundary and one sinks

• Two plates collide at a convergent boundary and they push each other up

• Two plates pull apart at a divergent boundary

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Seafloor spreading occur when:

• Two plates collide at and convergent boundary and one sinks

• Two plates collide at a convergent boundary and they push each other up

• Two plates pull apart at a divergent boundary

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Mountain building occurs when:

• Two plates collide at and convergent boundary and one sinks

• Two plates collide at a convergent boundary and they push each other up

• Two plates pull apart at a divergent boundary

Multiple Choice

Alfred Wegener's Theory of Plate Tectonics was laughed at initially, but is now believed by the scientific community.

• True

• False