Rodgers Plate Tectonics Exam

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 are the two types of crust?

• continental and oceanic
• ocean and basin
• lower and upper
• thick and thin

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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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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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What type of evidence was NOT used by Alfred Wegener to support his continental drift hypothesis?

• evidence from landforms
• evidence from fossils
• evidence from human remains
• evidence from climate

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Most geologists rejected Alfred Wegener's idea of continental drift because...

• it did not agree with their current theory
• Wegener was interested in what Earth was like millions of years ago
• Wegener used several different types of evidence to support his hypothesis
• Wegener could not identify the force that moved the continents

The process by which the ocean floor sinks beneath a deep ocean trench and back into the mantle is known as

• convection
• continental drift
• subduction
• conduction

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