Jones 2021 Unit 5 Review Game

What is the region around a magnet that is susceptible to a magnetic force?

• magnetic ridge
• compass point
• magnetic field
• magnetic reversal
• Star Wars Force

What is the theory that Earth's crust is broken into large sections, known as plates?

• plate tectonics
• continental drift
• radiometric dating
• seafloor spreading
• superposition

What is the suggestion that continents are in constant motion on the surface of Earth?

• continental drift
• plate tectonics
• radiometric dating
• seafloor spreading
• superposition

What are the mountain ranges in the middle of the oceans?

• hotspots
• mid-ocean ridges
• seamounts
• rift valleys
• Atlantis Rift Zone

What is the movement of hot less dense material rising and cooler, denser material sinking ?

• convection currents
• seafloor currents
• tectonic currents
• continental currents
• polarity

What is the formation of new seafloor at ridges pushing the ocean floor away from the ridge?

• plate tectonics
• radiometric dating
• continental drift
• seafloor spreading
• superposition

What is the area where oceanic crust is pushed under continental crust?

• seafloor spreading
• mid-ocean ridges
• rift valleys
• subduction
• sublimation

A fresh water reptile fossil that helps support the theory of continental drift is ____.

• Pangaea
• Mesosaurus
• Glossopteris
• Kannemeyerid
• Tyrannosaurus Rex

The result of plate movement can be seen at hotspots within the plates and ____.

• abyssal plains
• plate boundaries
• ocean margins
• plate centers
• formation of the moon

Bands of rock on the seafloor showing alternating magnetic orientation indicate Earth's magnetic field has changed. What do we call this change?

• magnetic weakening
• pole strengthing
• magnetic reversals
• compass directions
• superposition