Continental Drift Quiz

Identical rock types, identical fossils and very similar mountain ranges are found on different continents that are separated by a wide ocean. Which of these best explains these observations?

• The same forces erode mountains in different locations.

• These continents were joined together at one time in the past.

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Match the evidence of  plate tectonics with the appropriate reasoning. Some answer choices will not be used.

• Shapes of continents seemed to fit , this raised the idea they may were connected at one time.

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• The seafloor is spreading apart and new seafloor is forming where it is spreading. The old seafloor

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• Evidence of fossils from the same organisms are found on continents an ocean apart.

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Which  is one objection that critics had about Wegener's continental drift hypothesis?

• Wegener's idea of the  mechanism capable of moving the continents was physically impossible.

• Wegener's fossil evidence was not accurate.

• Wegener's fossil evidence was not accurate.

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Convection currents in the mantle are driven by changes in the temperature and density of the material.​ Match the motion of matter as its density and temperature change.

• Density Increases

• Moves Toward The Upper Mantle

• Temperature Decreases

• Moves Toward The Lower Mantle

• Density Decreases

• Moves Toward The Upper Mantle

• Temperature Increases

• Moves Toward The Lower Mantle

Draw the direction of a divergent boundary using arrows.

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Draw the direction of a convergent boundary using arrows.

The molten rock in the mantle becomes hotter and less dense near the...

• crust.

• core.

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The molten rock in the mantle becomes cooler and more dense near the...

• crust.

• core.

Hotter, less dense magma near the core...

• rises.

• sinks.

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Colder, more dense magma near the crust...

• rises.

• sinks.

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