
Plate Tectonics: from hypothesis to theory
Authored by Burrous Snellings
Other Sciences
6th - 9th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Who proposed the theory of Continental Drift?
Alfred Wegener
Harry Hess
Abraham Ortelius
John Jacob Jingleheimer Smith
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The lithosphere plates move on convection currents in the...
crust
atmosphere
asthenosphere
core
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What type of plate boundary occurs between the Nazca Plate and the South American Plate?
convergent oceanic-oceanic plate boundary
convergent oceanic-continental plate boundary
transform boundary
convergent continental-continental plate boundary
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The Andes mountain range of South America was formed at a ____.
convergent boundary
divergent boundary
transform boundary
hot spot
5.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Some of Wegener's evidence supporting his hypothesis include...
fit of the continents
similarity of fossils of different continents
locations of sand dunes in the Gobi desert
paleoclimate data
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Label E
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A rift valley forms at a
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