Year 9 - Plate Tectonics Revision

Name this boundary

• Convergent
• Divergent
• Transform
• Sergent

Name the boundary

• convergent
• transform
• divergent
• sergent

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

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

What was the name given to all the continents when they were joined as one super continent?

• Supreme Continent
• Eurasia
• Plate tectonics
• Pangea

Plate movement is caused by _____

• The rotation of the Earth
• Ocean tides
• Convection current in the mantle
• The moon's gravity

Plates moving apart would be...

• convergent
• divergent
• transform

This area contains over 70 percent of volcanoes and 90 percent of earthquakes in the world.

• North American plate
• Ring of Fire
• Fiery rings
• African plate

Which of the following did not support the Continental Drift Theory?

• Magnetic striping in the ocean floor
• identical fossils found in different continents
• Mountains that extend over continents
• Coastlines of continents such as South America and Africa fit like a puzzle

Which layer of the Earth is the thickest and is made of molten rock?

• Outer Core

• Inner Core

• Crust

• Mantle

Alfred Wegener used __________ to prove that Pangea once existed ?

• graham crackers and frosting

• math

• a metal detector

• fossils