Plate Tectonics Quiz

What was the name of the supercontinent?

• The world
• Pangea
• Land
• Mass continent

Who suggested the Continental Drift theory?

• Aldrin Weiner
• Alfred Wegener
• George Williams
• Dr Drift

Earth's crust is broken up into several large rocky pieces called ...

• plates
• faults
• fossils
• puzzle pieces

When Earth's plates rub or scrape against one another, the release of energy causes ...

• a volcano
• an earthquake
• a tornado
• continental drift

What type of plate boundary is pictured

• Destructive

• Constructive

• tranform
• tension

What is the WHOLE AREA called where the oceanic crust goes beneath the continental crust?

• subtraction zone

• section zone

• secondary zone

• subduction zone

At which boundary is crust neither consumed or created?

• divergent

• convergent

• transform

• oceanic

What types of landforms are formed at convergent boundaries?

PICK TWO

• volcanoes

• new crust

• Trenches

• rift valley

What type of crusts are involved with one plate subducting beneath another?

• continental and continental

• Oceanic and continental

• oceanic and divergent

• continental and convergent

The image illustrates what type of boundary?

• Divergent
• Convergent
• Transform
• Emergent