Plate Tectonics

The hypothesis of __________ ______ is the idea that all the continents were once a part of a single landmass.

• plate tectonics

• continental drift

• shifting plates

• wegener bumps

Alfred Wegener developed the hypothesis of continental drift using which of the following evidence?

• Fossils of plants and animals

• Matching Coastlines/Puzzle Piece continents

• Seafloor spreading

• Climatic Evidence (coal deposits and glacial evidence)

• Matching Rock strata (layers)

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Harry Hammond Hess used a new technology to scan the ocean floor... what was that tech?

• scuba divers

• submarines

• airplanes

• sonar

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A woman oceanographer used the data from sonar to make the first maps of the ocean. Who was she?

• Marie Tharp

• Marie Curie

• Rosalind Franklin

• Lise Meitner

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What is a mid-ocean ridge?

• A middle part of the ocean where old seafloor is destroyed.

• A place at the edge of the ocean where new rock is created.

• A mountain range in the middle of the ocean where new seafloor is created.

• A convergent plate boundary

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What is the name of the last supercontinent?

• Pangaea

• Pangaea Ultima

• Ur

• Rodinia

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What is the process called where new seafloor is created at the mid-ocean ridge?

• seafloor buffering

• seafloor craft

• seafloor spreading

• seafloor loading

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Where is the youngest rock on the ocean floor?

• At the mid ocean ridge.

• Next to the continents.

• Under the continents.

• It is all the same age.

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"The lithosphere is broken into large moving slabs of rock that are in constant motion." What does that quote describe?

• The hypothesis of continental drift.

• The theory of continental drift.

• The hypothesis of plate tectonics.

• The theory of plate tectonics.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What type of boundary is this?

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

• strike slip

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