JCA Plate Tectonics Unit D: Sepup Summative Exam

How deep would you have to drill to reach the center of the earth?

• About 60 kilometers
• About 600,000 kilometers
• About 600 kilometers
• About 6,000 kilometers

Continental drift is the idea that_________

• the continents are the only solid surface on the earth
• objects that fall into the ocean drift between the continents
• Ocean waves push the continents over the surface of the earth
• the continents were once joined together to form a large land mass

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Which of the following is most likely to occur at a transform boundary

• earthquakes
• volcanoes
• mountain formation
• all the options (earthquakes, volcanoes, & mountain formations)

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Plate tectonics refers to the theory that_____

• The continents float on the ocean like plates
• each of the continents onthe earth is also called a plate
• the surface of the earth is made of large plates that cannot move
• the surface of the earth is made up of large plates that have moved over time

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Scientific evidence suggest that the earth is _______________ of years old.

• hundreds
• thousands
• millions
• billions

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Which one of the following statement is TRUE?

• The earth's crust moves around but is never destroyed.
• New crust is always forming on the tip of large mountains.
• Old crust falls into the oceans and is destroyed over time.
• Old crust is destroyed and new crust is formed over time

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The word "lithosphere" is used to refer to which layers of the earth?

• the crust only
• the crust and the core
• the crust and the upper mantle
• the upper mantle and the core

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Plate tectonics helps explain the formation of which of the following?

• mountains
• trees
• clouds
• all of the options (mountains, trees, and clouds)

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Which of the following statements provides evidence for plate tectonics?

• The same kind of unusual fossils are found in South America and Africa.
• The same kind of unusual rock layers are found in North America, Europe ,and Africa.
• The earths continents are moving at rate of centimeters per year.
• All of the options listed.

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Plate tectonics is the theory that sections of the earth's crust________.

• were hot and wrinkled as they cooled to form continents, mountains, and oceans
• have moved toward and away from each other to form continents, mountains,and oceans
• have collapsed,forming oceans between the continents
• are floating in the oceans and are called continents

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