EARTH'S NATURAL FORCES AND IMPACTS.​ QUIZ

What is continental drift?

• the gradual movement of the continents across the earth's surface through geological time.

• Movement

• The movement through earths surface through geological time.

• The movement under earths surface through geological time.

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Who created the hypothesis of continental drift?

• Albert Einstein

• George Washington

• Alfred Wegner

• Beyonce

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What 3 types of evidence did scientists use to prove continental drift?

• the fit of the continents; the distribution of ancient fossils, rocks, and mountain ranges; and the locations of ancient climatic zones

• The unfitness of continents, the difference in movement, dirt hills and mountain ranges, Size of mountains

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Is the process of seafloor spreading (Seafloor spreading occurs at divergent plate boundaries. As tectonic plates slowly move away from each other when heat from the mantle's convection currents makes the crust more plastic and less dense.)?

• True

• False

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Who was one of the people that discovered seafloor spreading?

• Harry Hess

• Maria the Scientist

• Nelis Bohr

• Issac newton

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What are the 3 different types of plate boundaries and describe them.

• Divergent- where new crust is generated as the plates pull away from each other

  Convergent-where crust is destroyed as one plate dives under another. Transform- where crust is neither produced nor destroyed as the plates slide horizontally past each other

• Divergent- when the earth moves side to side

  Convergent- crust is neither destroyed or created

  transform- when they transform into something else

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The theory of plate tectonics explains_________________.

• how major landforms are created as a result of Earth's subterranean movements.

• why major landforms are created because of the movement of earths surface

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what was a landform that was created through plate tectonics? (Select the picture and choose the correct description of it).

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• Mariana trench

  Located in west pacific east of the Philippines the highest elevation of Mariana trench is -36,069.6'ft the lowest elevation is 36,070ft

  The general inclination of the trench outer slope is almost 10dg

• Mariana trench located on the east west of the Philippines the highest elevation of Mariana trench is 800ft the lowest elevation is 20ft the general inclination of the trench outer slope is almost 60dg

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Describe the type of geographical features and natural disasters that can occur at the three types of plate boundaries

• Deep ocean trenches, volcanoes, island arcs, submarine mountain ranges, and fault lines are examples of features that can form along plate tectonic boundaries. Volcanoes are one kind of feature that forms along convergent plate boundaries, where two tectonic plates collide and one moves beneath the others

• Low ocean trenches volcanoes, no mountain ranges, Convergent plate boundaries

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using this satellite image of a landform and explain how weathering, erosion, and deposition would affect this area in the future.

(Colorful Faults of Xinjiang)

• I feel like weathering would make it break into smaller bits and wash away some of the rockyness of this area with erosion I think the wind would be strong enough to blow away smaller peices of this area and depositon would finish it off by carrying the peices into another place

• I don't think anything could happen this area is to strong.

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