Quiz about Continental Drift and Seafloor spreading

Question 1

Who is the person credited with developing the theory of continental drift?

Accepted Answer

Alfred Wegener

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Harry Hess

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Galileo

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Newton

Question 2

What is this a picture of?

Accepted Answer

pangea

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plate tectonics

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continental drift

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glacier scaring

Question 3

What does the theory of continental drift state?

Accepted Answer

The continents were once joined in a super-continent and have moved over time

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Continents are stationary and do not move

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The Earth is broken into lithospheric plates that move due to convection currents

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none of the above

Question 4

What evidence did Wegener use in his theory?

Accepted Answer

all of the above

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Continents and fossils fitting together/matching-up like puzzle pieces

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glacier scars and evidence from temperature

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mountain ranges and coal deposits line up across continents

Question 5

Why did no one believe Wegener's thoery?

Accepted Answer

He could not explain HOW the continents moved

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He didn't have evidence

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His data was wrong

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He didn't use the right technology to gather data

Question 6

Choose the correct label for number 12.

Accepted Answer

magma rising

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subduction zone

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newer seafloor

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volcanic activity

Question 7

What is an underwater mountain range where new ocean floor is made?

Accepted Answer

mid-ocean ridge

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subduction

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deep-sea trench

Question 8

What two specific continents fit together most noticeably?

Accepted Answer

South America and Africa

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Africa and North America

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South America and Europe

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Antartica and Africa

Question 9

What does the word Pangea mean?

Accepted Answer

all land

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big land mass

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old land

Question 10

Where would the oldest rock be found?

Accepted Answer

O

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L

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M

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N

Question 11

What are the two types of crust?

Accepted Answer

continental and oceanic

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ocean and basin

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lower and upper

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thick and thin

Question 12

What are the three types of Evidence that supports Alfred Wegener's Theory?

Accepted Answer

Fossils, Land forms, and Climate

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Fossils, Fish, and Land

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Sedimentary, Magma, and Climate

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Climate, Land forms, and Metamorphic rock

Question 13

Where did Wegener find plant fossils that today would not be able to survive on that type of land?

Accepted Answer

Antarctica

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North America

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China

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India

Question 14

Choose the correct label for number 8.

Accepted Answer

trench

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seafloor spreading

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new seafloor

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magma rising

Question 15

The youngest rocks on the ocean floor are located ____.

Accepted Answer

at mid-ocean ridges

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near continents

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far from mid-ocean ridges

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near Asia

Question 16

Seafloor spreading occurs because ____.

Accepted Answer

molten material beneath Earth's crust rises to the surface

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new material is being added to the asthenosphere

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earthquakes break apart the ocean floor

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sediments accumulate at the area of spreading

Question 17

A vast, underwater mountain chain is called a(n) _________.

Accepted Answer

ocean ridge

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oceanic crust

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deep-sea trench

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ocean floor sediment

Question 18

Choose the correct label for number 16.

Accepted Answer

asthenosphere

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lithosphere

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newer seafloor

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older seafloor

Question 19

What technology did scientists use in the mid-1900s to map the mid-ocean ridge?

Accepted Answer

sonar

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satellites

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submarines

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deep-sea diving

Question 20

In sea-floor spreading, molten material rises from the mantle and erupts

Accepted Answer

along mid-ocean ridges

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in deep-ocean trenches

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along the edges of all the continents

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at the north and south plate

Question 21

Choose the correct label for number 13.

Accepted Answer

newer seafloor

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lithosphere

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older seafloor

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asthenosphere

Question 22

The process of ___________ continually adds new crust to the ocean floor along both sides of the mid-ocean ridge.

Accepted Answer

seafloor spreading

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plate tectonics

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continental drift

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convection

Question 23

The scientist credited with sea-floor spreading is _________

Accepted Answer

Harry Hess, an American geologist

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Alfred Wegener, a German scientist

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J.Tuzo Wilson, a Canadian scientist

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Kenn Bulaso, a Filipino educator

Question 24

How do scientists figure out the age of the seafloor?

Accepted Answer

They take drill ships to many locations in the oceans and collect, then date, rock samples.

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They research it from ancient sea maps that trading vessels would use in the 1700s

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They use the moon phases and eclipses to calculate the age

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They use seismographs and the depth as well as location of earthquakes to calculate the age

Question 25

True or False: The plates will never stop moving

Accepted Answer

True

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False

Question 26

Magnetic field that points south.

Accepted Answer

Reversed polarity

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Modern polarity

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Past polarity

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Normal polarity

Question 27

Choose the correct label for number 11.

Accepted Answer

Convection Currents

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trench

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asthenosphere

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lithosphere

Question 28

Choose the correct label for number 7.

Accepted Answer

mid-ocean ridge

(where seafloor spreading occurs)

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convection currents

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older seafloor

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trench

Question 29

The rocks on the ocean floor show evidence that the magnetism alternates North and South as you move along the sea-floor. This evidence of sea-floor spreading is reflected in the rocks on the ocean floor. The name for this evidence is called?

Accepted Answer

Magnetic Reversals

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Crustal subtraction

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plate motion

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magnetic soldification

Question 30

What were 2 kinds of evidence were used to prove that the seafloor spread?

Accepted Answer

magnetic seafloor stripes, age of rocks

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rock formations, WWII shipwrecks

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magnetic seafloor stripes, WWII ship logs

Question 31

Choose the correct label for number 16.

Accepted Answer

asthenosphere

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lithosphere

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newer seafloor

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older seafloor

Question 32

Choose the correct label for number 10

Accepted Answer

subduction zone

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newer seafloor

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volcanic activity

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magma rising

Question 33

Choose the correct label for number 14.

Accepted Answer

older seafloor

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lithosphere

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newer seafloor

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asthenosphere

Question 34

Choose the correct label for number 15.

Accepted Answer

lithosphere

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newer seafloor

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older seafloor

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asthenosphere

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