Plate Motion and Landforms

What is this an example of?

• A slice of pie

• A cross section

• Mars

What is the outer most layer of the Earth made of?

• solid rock

• water

• lose soil

What does the word extinct mean?

• It smells bad

• still living

• No longer exists

What is this a picture of?

• Mrs. Kaluzny's art work

• fossils

• the wall paper in someone's bathroom

A sudden shaking of the Earth's surface is called

• a hurricane

• a tornado

• an earthquake

Mesosaurus fossils are found on what two plate of the Earth's surface?

• South American and African

• North American and African

• Asian and African

Look at this figure.
Which best summarizes the hypothesis shown in the figure?

• Rising ocean levels separated Laurasia from Gondwanaland
• Magnetic reversals gradually pulled Gondwanaland to the south
• The continents gradually drifted away from each other to current positions
• Seafloor spreading in the Atlantic ocean separated Laurasia and Gondwana

Two continental plates meeting at a convergent boundary create what type of landform?

• costal volcanoes

• rift valleys

• mid-ocean ridges

• folded mountains

What two landforms are created by the convergence of an ocean plate with another ocean plate?

• trench & coastal volcano

• trench & island arc

• folded mountain & mid-ocean ridge

• folded mountain & rift valley

What two landforms are created by the convergence of an ocean plate with a continental plate?

• trench & coastal volcano

• trench & island arc

• folded mountain & mid-ocean ridge

• folded mountain & rift valley