Plate Tectonics Practice

The observation that the continents fit together like puzzle pieces, and may once have been connected, led Alfred Wegener to propose a theory called

• continental plowing.

• continental drift.

• wandering continents.

• shape matching of continents.

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Youngest part of the ocean floor is found near the ____________.

• along deep ocean trenches

• where ocean sediments are thickest

• near ocean ridges

• where Earth's magnetic field changes polarity

Which of the following supported Wegener's theory?

• Matching fossil plant remains found on two different continents.

• Matching reptile remains found on two different continents.

• Nearly identical sedimentary rock types of the same age in widely separated locations.

• All of the above.

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Scientists found that the continents were moving apart from each other due to magma rising out of mid-ocean ridges, and they called this

• seafloor spreading.

• seafloor rising.

• changing seafloor.

• underwater volcanoes.

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Plate margins are places where a lot of tectonic activity occur. Earthquakes occur, for example, along convergent margins, where plates are

• moving apart.

• sliding past each other.

• colliding.

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The boundary at which crust is continually added is a

• subduction zone.

• transform boundary.

• divergent boundary.

• convergent boundary.

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Subduction is when

• earthquakes occur along a transform boundary.

• new crust is formed.

• one plate slides under another.

• new islands are formed.

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The mid-ocean ridge occurs along a

• convergent boundary where new crust is formed.

• transform boundary where crust is subducted.

• divergent boundary where seafloor spreading takes place.

• divergent boundary where subduction takes place.

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When two continental plates pull apart a _________________ forms.

• subduction zone

• mountain range

• earthquake

• rift valley

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Oceanic crust is _____________ than continental crust.

• less dense

• more dense

• less hot

• more hot