QUIZ 1

The idea that continents were once part of a single landmass that broke apart and

moved

• CONTINENTAL DRIFT

• SEAFLOOR SPREADING

• PLATE BOUNDERIES

• CONVECTION CURRENTS

Forms where plates are moving away from each other is called _______.

• Transform

• Convergent

• Divergent

The land mass where all of the continents were once together in one large continent is called ________________.

• Laurasia

• Gondwana

• Panthalassa

• Pangea

Tectonic plates consist of____.

• Continental crust

• Oceanic Crust

• Both continental and oceanic

• Asthenosphere

The fact that similar fossils are found on both sides of the ocean is evidence of____.

• magnetic reversal

• continental drift

• seafloor spreading

• oceanic drift

The movement of the tectonic plates is caused by______.

• convection currents

• rotation of the Earth

• movement of materials in the outer core

• revolution of the Earth

Observe this diagram of a plate boundary. One statement BEST describes what is happening. It is that____

• the oceanic crust is melting.

• volcanic islands are forming.

• the denser oceanic crust is subducting under the less dense oceanic crust

• the tectonic plates are moving away from each other.

What is this a picture of?

• plate tectonics

• Pangaea

• Panthalassa

• continental drift

Which of the following is not the idea in the formation of continental drift?

• The seafloor -not the continents-is the one that moves

• the shapes of the continents are fitted together

• the fossil distributions are similar to the edges of the continents

• the rock composition along the coastlines of continents is similar.

What is the shaking of the Earth’s crust caused by a release of energy?

• Earthquake
• Epicenter
• Fault
• Plate