Plate Tectonics Quiz

What is the hypothesis that continents slowly move across the Earth?

• Wegener's Way

• Continental Drift

• Pangea

• Mass Movement

Name for the single land mass that broke apart 200 million years ago to create the 7 continents.

• Pangea

• Panorama

• Pandora

• Continental Mass

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Long chains of mountains that rise up from the ocean floor

• subformation

• Igneous intrusion

• Mariana Trench

• mid-ocean ridge

The process by which molten material adds new oceanic crust to the ocean floor. At the same time, older strips of rock move outward from either side of the ridge

• mid-ocean ridge

• sea-floor spreading

• Mariana trench

• fault lines

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

A deep valley along the ocean floor beneath which oceanic crust slowly sinks towards the mantle

• deep-ocean trenches

• mid-ocean ridge

• Mariana trench

• Mount Everest

A break or fracture in the ground that occurs when Earth's tectonic plates move or shift.

• convergent plate boundry

• mid-ocean ridge

• divergent plate boundry

• fault lines

A plate boundary where two plates slide past each other horizontally.

• transform plate boundary

• divergent plate boundary

• convergent plate boundary

• subduction ridge

The region where two tectonic plates are in contact

• fault lines

• plate boundary

• mid-ocean ridge

• Mariana trench

Who came up with the theory of Continental Drift?

• Tesla

• Wegener

• Newton

• Jameson

What is one piece of evidence that caused Wegener to think that continents moved?

• He found similar fossils on different continents that are separated by oceans.

• He found a cave painting of Pangea.

• The dirt was made of the same minerals

• He could see the continents slowly drifting