Continental Drift & Plate Tectonics Quick Check

Which type of plate boundary would cause folded mountains to form? 

• transform
• convergent
• divergent
• subduction

The Great Rift Valley in Africa and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge were both created by this type of plate boundary. 

• divergent
• convergent
• transform
• subduction

What are the two types of crust?

• continental and oceanic
• ocean and basin
• lower and upper
• Basalt & Granite

What drives tectonic plate movement? 

• gravity
• coriolis effect
• convection currents
• the earth's magnetic core

A boundary where two plates collide into  each other.

• convergent boundary
• divergent boundary
• transform boundary
• sergent boundary

A place where two plates meet; a break in Earth's crust

• plate
• fault
• fold
• crack

Wegener compiled more evidence to support his theory but did not use this one:

• Rock striations caused by glaciers
• Fossils found on different continents
• lava samples
• Similar types of and age of rocks and coal deposites on different continents

Wegener's evidence supports his theory of a super continent that he named?

• Saginea
• Pangaea
• Plate Tectonics
• Continental Drift

Other scientists rejected Wegener's Continental Drift Theory because...

• He did not have evidence
• He couldn't explain how the continents moved
• He wasn't a scientist
• He was a bad communicator

This theory states Earth's  plates move on top of the mantle at a slow constant rate

• Plate Tectonics
• Continental Drift
• Superposition
• Pangaea