Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics

Why did no one believe Wegener's theory?

• He could not explain how the continents moved

• He didn't have evidence

• His data was wrong

• He didn't use the right technology to gather data

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

• Harry Hess
• Galileo
• Alfred Wegener
• Newton

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

• transform
• convergent
• divergent
• subduction

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

• divergent
• convergent
• transform
• subduction

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What drives tectonic plate movement? 

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

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Transform boundaries are most likely to produce what phenomenon?

• volcanoes
• deep sea trenches
• underwater mountain ranges
• earthquakes

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When an oceanic plate and a continental plate collide, which one will subduct? 

• oceanic
• continental
• neither
• both

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Two tectonic plates collide at a ___ plate boundary.

• convergent
• divergent
• transform
• transformer

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According to Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift, 

• Earth's surface is made up of seven major landmasses
• the continents DO NOT move
• Earth is slowly cooling and shrinking
• the continents were once joined together in a single landmass

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What is Pangaea?

• the name of a German scientist
• the name of the super-continent that existed millions of years ago
• another name for continental drift
• the name of an ancient fossil

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