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

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

• Fossils, Fish, and Land

• Sedimentary, Magma, and Climate

• Fossils, Land forms, and Climate

• 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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What type of event will occur at this boundary?

• Earthquake

• Volcano Eruption

• Tornado

• Mountain Building

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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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