Final Exam

The continuous movement of the continents.

• geoscience
• rain
• wind
• plate tectonics

Who came up with the theory of continental drift?

• Alfred Wegener

• Harry Hess

• Albert Einstein

What is the name of the super continent that occured 225 million years ago?

• Pangaea

• Wegener

• Plate tectonics

• continental crust

What type of boundary is also called a sliding boundary?

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

Volcanoes most likely form at ____________________.

• transform boundaries

• convergent boundaries

• divergent boundaries

Which is an example of a transform boundary?

• mountains

• fault

• ridges

This is formed when two continental plates collide.

• rift valleys

• strike slip faults

• mountain ranges

• volcanoes

___________________ plate boundaries are places where plates slide horizontally past each other.

• convergent

• transform

• teacher

• divergent

What geologic feature/event would you most likely to find at a divergent boundary between two pieces of oceanic crust?

• Rift Valley
• Mid-Ocean Ridge
• Island Arc
• Flat land

What is the shaking of the Earth’s crust caused by a release of energy?

• Earthquake
• Epicenter
• Fault
• Plate