Plate Tectonics Vocabulary

What is the Theory of Continental Drift?

• New continents are continually being created

  and destroyed.

• The layout of the continents is the same today

  as it has always been

• The continents have always been separate but

  may one day drift together to form a single

  continent

• All the continents were once one continent that

  broke up and drifted apart over hundreds of

  millions of years

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The movement of what is responsible for the volcanoes and mountain ranges?

• Weathering

• Super-nocturnal tides

• Hurricanes

• Plate Tectonics

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Alfred Wegener proposed the Theory of Continental Drift. Which one of these does NOT support the theory Wegener proposed?

• Fossils that were similar were found on different continents.

• Bacteria was found all over the world.

• Shape of continents fit together to form a supercontinent called Pangea

• Climate seen as glacial or ice sharring are found all over the world.

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Wegener's evidence supports his theory of a super continent that he named?

• Ultima
• Pangaea
• Plate Tectonics
• Continental Drift

Name the boundary

• convergent boundary
• divergent boundary
• transform boundary
• sergent boundary

Name the boundary

• convergent boundary
• divergent boundary
• transform boundary
• sergent boundary

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Name the boundary

• convergent boundary
• divergent boundary
• transform boundary
• sergent boundary

This theory states Earth's  plates move on top of the mantle at a slow constant rate

• Plate Tectonics
• Continental Drift
• Superposition
• Pangaea 

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Who developed the continental drift theory?

• Harry Hess

• Alfred Wegener

• Jason Morgan

• Bill Nye

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What evidence in rocks supports the theory of seafloor spreading?

• plate movement

• subduction

• magnetic reversal

• horizontal fissures

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