Review for Final Exam

Mountains form from...

• plates sliding past one another

• plates moving away from each other

• collision of plates

During sea floor spreading, molten material rises up from the mantle...

• along the continents

• deep ocean trenches

• at the mid ocean ridges

• at north and south poles

Which of the following is where one plate slides under another plate?

• subduction zone

• divergence zone

• lower zone

Name the boundary

• convergent

• transform

• divergent

What is represented by the picture?

• sea floor spreading

• pangea

• volcanoes

• how the continents are arranged today

Name the boundary

• convergent

• transform

• divergent

Which type of crust is more dense and thinner?

• continental

• oceanic

What is Wegener's hypothesis called?

• The Pangea

• The Continental Drift

• Tectonic Plates

Why was Alfred Wegner's theory of Continental Drift not immediately accepted by scientists?

• there was no mechanism to explain how Continental Drift happened.

• there was no evidence to support his theory.

• The theory of Continental Drift was immediately accepted by the scientific community.

A location where two tectonic plates collide is known as a _________ boundary.

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transform