Plate Tectonics Review 2025

Who is the German Scientist that came up with the theory of the Continental Drift? 

• Albert Einstein 
• Mr. Fields

• Galileo
• Alfred Wegener

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What are the three types of Evidence that supports Alfred Wegener's Theory? 

• Matching Fossils, Fish, and Land

• Matching Fossils, Matching Land forms (Mountains), and Matching Coastlines

• Climate, Land forms, and Metamorphic rock 

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What is this a picture of?

• plate tectonics
• continental drift
• pangea
• glacier scaring

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Scientists did not believe Wegner's theory because Continental Drift is a slow process and there is no explanation for...

• how to measure the continents.
• how the continents move.
• Wegener being a silly man.
• Antarctica having fern fossils.

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The type of plate boundary where two plates come together is a .....

• Convergent Boundary
• Divergent Boundary
• Transform Boundary
• Plate Boundary

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Which of the following causes Earth's tectonic plates to move?

• Energy from the Sun
• Magnetic Pole Reversal
• Convection currents in the mantle
• Faults in Mountain Ranges

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What type of plate boundary is this?

• Plate
• Divergent
• Convergent
• Transform

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A divergent boundary occurs when plates ....

• Pull apart
• Come together
• Slide past each other
• subducting

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What type of plate boundary is this?

• Transform
• Convergent
• Divergent
• Plate

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Oceanic Trenches are formed by _______ plate boundaries

• Convergent

• Transform

• Divergent

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