Plate Tectonics

Which of the following is where one plate slides under another plate?

• submarine zone
• divergence zone
• subduction zone
• lower zone

The area around the pacific plate where boundaries form is called...

• death ring
• fire zone
• ring of fire
• zone of fire

What happens at transform boundaries?

• Volcanoes
• mountains
• trenches
• earthquakes

This land formation occurs at a divergent continental/ continental boundary.

• mid ocean ridge
• deep ocean trench
• pacific hot spot
• rift valley

What happens to temperature as you go deeper in the Earth?

• decreases
• increases
• fluctuates
• remains the same

Which ocean is expanding due to a mid-ocean ridge?

• Indian
• Dead Sea
• Atlantic
• Artic

Who is the person credited with developing the theory of continental drift?

• Harry Hess
• Galileo
• Alfred Wegener
• Newton

What did he explore from 1910-1912?

• Birds
• What was on each island
• Theory of Continental Drift
• Law of Superposition

What is Pangaea?

• The name of a German Scientist
• the name of the supercontinent that existed millions of years ago
• another name for continental drift
• the name of an ancient fossil

Plate movement is caused by ______________.

• the rotation of the Earth
• ocean tides
• convection currents in the mantle
• the moon's gravity