Plate Tectonics 2020

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Mary Poarch
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Most geologists rejected Alfred Wegener's idea of continental drift because
they were afraid of a new idea.
Wegener was interested in what Earth was like millions of years ago.
Wegener used several different types of evidence to support his hypothesis.
Wegener could not identify a force that could move the continents.
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Most geologists think that the movement of Earth's plates is caused by
gravity.
Earth's magnetic field.
convection currents in the asthenosphere.
subduction.
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is Pangaea?
the name of the supercontinent that existed a million years ago.
another name for continental drift.
the name of a German scientist.
the name of an ancient fossil that existed a hundred thousand years ago.
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The theory of ___________ was that all the continents were once joined as a single super-continent and have since drifted apart.
subduction
volcanic activity
continental drift
seafloor spreading
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The geological theory that states that pieces of Earth's lithosphere are in constant, slow motion is the theory of
subduction
deep-sea trenches
plate tectonics
seafloor spreading
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is happening in this diagram?
Two continental plates are diverging.
The continental plates are creating a rift valley.
Two continental plates are converging.
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Describe what happens at a divergent boundary under the ocean.
Convergent and transform boundaries form there.
Oceanic crust subducts and a deep-sea trench forms.
The crust is folded to form mountains.
Seafloor spreading creates new land as magma rises.
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