Unit 2: Continental Drift Summative Assessment

Look at the drawing shown. What likely happens when two continental plates collide?

• An ocean trench forms.

• Folded mountains form.

• Sea-floor spreading occurs

Which of the following answers lists events that result from the motion of Tectonic Plates.

• hurricanes and tropical depressions

• earthquakes and mountain building

• high tides and low tides

Name this boundary

• Convergent
• Divergent
• Transform
• Sergent

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This is the theory that states that all the continents started as a single massive continent and have been MOVING apart for over 200 million years and the man that proposed it.

• The Big Bang Theory, Einstein

• The Continental Drift Theory, Wegener

• The Tectonic Plate Theory, Darwin

What is a tectonic plate?

• A piece of the earths crust

• A pie of the mantle

• A piece of the core

• A piece of the whole world

What is the continent that is dark green?

• North America
• South America
• Europe
• Australia

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What is the continent that is light green?

• North America
• South America
• Africa
• Australia

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The movement of the tectonic plates is caused by

• the rotation of the Earth.

• convection currents in the Asthenosphere

• the gravity of the iron-nickel core.

• the Moho discontinuity.

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What is the source of energy that drives plate movement?

• the subducton of the sea floor

• the different densities of the oceanic and crustal plates

• convection currents in the asthenosphere

• the friction force between the plates that move past each other

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Fossil records indicate that the continents were once connected. How do fossil records support this claim?

• We have been able to transport the same types of fossils from one continent to another.

• Fossils of the same organism have been found on continents that are now separated by oceans.

• Some continents contain fossils of many different types of organisms.

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