The History of Earth

The circular arrows inside the Earth's Mantle represent what type of motion, that drives ALL plate movement?  

• Convergent Boundary
• Ocean Currents
• Convection Currents
• Transform Boundary

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

What is the result of the collision of (crashing) of continental tectonic plates?

• Beach erosion
• Convection Currents
• Mountain Building
• Faults

ABOUT how old is the Earth?

• 4 million years
• 40 million years
• 400 million years
• 4 billion years

Which layer is the OLDEST?

• A
• B
• C
• D

What happens between DIVERGENT faults?

• Plates move towards one another
• Plates move away from each other
• Plates slide past each other

Mountains are formed between transform faults

• True
• False

The boundary where two plates push into each other

• Convergent Boundary
• Divergent Boundary
• Transform Boundary

Two plates coming together to form mountains at a convergent boundary

• Continental/Continenal
• Continental/Oceanic
• Oceanic/Oceanic

This crust is less dense and generally made out of granite rock

• Outer Crust
• Inner Crust
• Oceanic Crust
• Continental Crust