Plate Tectonics

What are the puzzle pieces of the Earth's surface called?

• Tectonic plates
• Puzzles
• Earthquakes

What is the outermost layer of the Earth called?

• Core
• Mantle
• Crust

The area around the Pacific Ocean where lots of earthquakes and volcanoes happen is called the ____________.

• Ring of Earth
• Ring of Fire
• Ring of Stone
• Ring of Diamond

What type of plate boundary is this?

• Plate
• Divergent
• Convergent
• Transform

What type of plate boundary is this?

• Transform
• Convergent
• Divergent
• Plate

Mountains are created when....

• Two continental plates collide
• Two oceanic plates pull apart
• An Oceanic plate subducts under a Continental Plate
• Two continental plates pull apart

What are the two types of crust

• continental and oceanic
• ocean and upper
• lower and upper
• pizza and subway

What is the process in which hot molten rock rises, then cools and sinks back to the core?

• plate tectonics
• continental drift
• convection
• divergence

A German scientist Alfred Wegener was the first to hypothesize that ...........

• Continents were once made of jello

• The sea floor is spreading

• Continents are moving

• The Earth's magnetic pole flips

Pangaea was an ancient supercontinent made up of...

• America, Greenland, and Europe.
• Antarctica, India, and America.
• all of Earth’s continents.
• South Africa, India, Australia, and South America.