The Theory of Plate Tectonics

What is the theory of plate tectonics?

• The theory that describes how Earth's outer layers is broken up into moving tectonic plates

• Tectonic plates stay in one place

• All of the continents were once apart of a Super Continent called Panthalassa

• All of the plates were once a solid plate until they broke up and moved to their current position

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Which below is a possible cause of tectonic plate motion?

• ocean tides

• the sun

• convection currents

• current weather patterns

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Which picture below represents a convection current?

• GPS

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The German meteorologist who came up with the continental drift theory is?

• Albert Einstein

• Marie Currie

• Alfred Wegener

• Isaac Newton

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What evidence did Alfred Wegener use to prove the Theory of Continental Drift?

• he used the moon's rotation and revolution as evidence

• he looked at the clouds and noticed continental drift

• he looked at the fossils, land forms and how continents fit together like puzzle pieces

• he studied the weather patterns for Africa and South America

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When tectonic plates collide into one another, which type of boundary is this?

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

• all of the above

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When tectonic plates move away from each other, this boundary is:

• convergent

• transform

• divergent

• none of the above

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When a continental plate collides with another continental plate what type of land form will be created?

• mid ocean ridges

• mountain ranges

• islands

• deep see trenches

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When oceanic plate and continental plate collide, what type of land form will be created?

• mid ocean ridges

• ocean trenches

• islands

• earthquakes

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When tectonic plates move away from each other, what type of land form will be created?

• islands

• mid ocean ridges

• ocean trenches

• all of the above

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