6th (6.10C - Tectonic Plates) Part 1

How many major tectonic plates is Earth broken up into?

• 4

• 12

• 6

• 25

What does the theory of plate tectonics say?

• Volcanoes are made of plates

• Tectonics are plates that cause earthquakes

• Earth's surface is broken up into plates that move

• Tectonic music is made with plates

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The movement of tectonic plates is due to _____.

• convection currents

• seafloor spreading

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What is seafloor spreading?

• Large pieces of lithosphere that move.

• Layer made up of the crust and uppermost mantle.

• The super continent that existed millions of years ago.

• Process by when new oceanic crust forms when magma rises up and solidifies at the mid-ocean ridge.

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What is Pangaea?

• Huge continent that existed millions of years ago.

• Where two plates meet

• Where two plates divide

• Where two plates collide

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What is continental drift?

• made of igneous rock

• where two plates collide

• theory that all earth's continents were once joined together in a singe, huge land mass and then started drifting away from each other

• the process by which new oceanic forms when magma rises up

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The observation that the continents fit together like puzzle pieces, and may once have been connected, led Alfred Wegener to prose a theory in 1910 called ____.

• continental plowing

• wandering continentals

• shape matching of the continents

• continental drift

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What did Alfred use to support his theory?

• fossil records

• Italian dressing

• meteors

• photosynthesis

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Who was the first person to bring p the theory of Plate Tectonics and the people believed him?

• Francis Baron

• Mrs. Martin

• Alfred Wegener

• Antonio Snider-Pellegrini

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Which one of this are NOT a major tectonic plate?

• North America

• South America

• Europe

• Indo-Australian