Plate Tectonics Pre-test

Earthquakes and volcanoes are most likely found in which locations? 

• at plate boundaries
• in oceans
• I don't know
• in the middle of plates

Two tectonic plates collide at a ___ plate boundary.

• convergent
• divergent
• transform
• I don't know

This land form can occur at a divergent plate boundary.

• trench
• mid-ocean ridge
• folded mountains
• I don't know

According to Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift, 

• Earth's surface is made up of seven major landmasses
• the continents DO NOT move
• I don't know
• the continents were once joined together in a single landmass

What is Pangaea?

• the name of a German scientist
• the name of the super-continent that existed millions of years ago
• I don't know
• the name of an ancient fossil

What type of evidence was NOT used by Alfred Wegener to support his continental drift hypothesis?

• evidence from landforms
• evidence from fossils
• evidence from human remains
• evidence from climate

The process by which the ocean floor sinks beneath a deep ocean trench and back into the mantle is known as

• convection
• continental drift
• subduction
• I don't know

A place where two plates slide past each other, moving in opposite directions, is known as a

• transform boundary
• divergent boundary
• convergent boundary
• I don't know

What geologic feature is most likely to form at a divergent boundary?

• delta
• rift valley
• trench
• I don't know

Name this plate boundary.

• divergent
• convergent 
• transform
• I don't know