Test review for dynamic earth

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

• Harry Hess
• Galileo Galilei

• Alfred Wegener
• Sir issac

  Newton

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An area where tectonic plates are moving away from one another is a

• Convergent Boundary

• Divergent Boundary

• Transform Boundary

• Tectonic Boundary

What type of Boundary is this? What event will occur at this boundary?

• Transform / Earthquakes

• Subduction / Volcano Eruption

• Tornado / Rain

• Mountain Building / Volcanism

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What is subduction?

• when one plates hits the other

• when the mid-ocean ridge gets bigger

• when 2 plates converge to form mountains

• when 2 plates collide and one goes under the other.

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Tectonic Plate movement is caused by ______________.

• the rotation of the Earth

• ocean tides

• convection currents in the mantle

• the moon's gravity

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Which piece of evidence did Wegener use to prove continental drift?

• The shape of the continents
• Similar fossils found on separate continents
• Tree fossils found in odd places
• All of the above

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What technology was used during WWII to detect enemy submarines and produce the first map of the seafloor?

• Sonar
• Radar
• GPS

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Process by which new ocean crust forms.

• Seafloor spreading

• Continental drift

• Mid-ocean ridge

• Rift

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What are Mid-Ocean Ridges?

• A chain of underwater waterfalls 
• A chain of underwater volcanos
• A chain of underwater mountains
• A chain of underwater rocks

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Why does oceanic crust sink below the continental crust during subduction

• oceanic crust is less dense

• oceanic crust is more dense

• oceanic crust is older

• oceanic crust is warmer

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