Unit 6: Impact of Natural Events Quiz

The youngest rocks on the ocean floor are located ____

• far from the mid-ocean ridge

• near continents

• at the mid-ocean ridge

• near Asia

The crust and upper mantle make up Earth's ____.

• asthenosphere

• lithosphere

• core

• clouds

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Plates of the lithosphere float on the ____.

• crust

• asthenosphere

• core

• atmosphere

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

The ____ are mountains formed by the collision of the Indian Plate and the Eurasian Plate.

• Alps

• Rockies

• Himalaya

• Appalachians

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The presence of the same ____ on several continents supports the hypothesis of continental drift.

• fossils

• rocks

• neither fossils or rocks

• both fossils and rocks

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The hypothesis that continents have slowly moved to their current locations is called ____.

• continental drift

• continental slope

• magnetic reversal

• convection

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A lack of explanation for continental drift prevented many scientists from accepting that a single supercontinent called ____ once existed.

• Planet

• Pangaea

• Wegener

• continental drift

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Plates slide past one another at ____.

• subduction zones

• transform boundaries

• convection currents

• divergent boundaries

The boundary between two plates moving together is called a ____.

• divergent boundary

• transform boundary

• convergent boundary

• lithosphere

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Seafloor spreading occurs because ____.

• new material is being added to the asthenosphere

• earthquakes break apart the ocean floor

• molten material beneath Earth's crust rises to the surface

• sediments accumulate at the area of continents

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