Restless Earth Test 24-25

Which of the following causes Earth's tectonic plates to move?

• Energy from the Sun
• Earthquakes in the lithosphere

• Convection currents

• Faults in Mountain Ranges

What type of geologic feature/event will occur at this boundary?

• Earthquake
• Volcanic Arc

• Ridge

• Fold mountains

• Trench

What type of plate boundary is this?

• Cool Plates

• Divergent
• Convergent
• Transform

Which of the following is the name of the ancient supercontinent formed Millions of Years ago.

• Pangea

• Gondwanda

• TASLandia

• Neverland

What geologic features/events would you most likely to find at a divergent boundary between two pieces of oceanic crust?

• Volcanoes

• Mid-Ocean Ridge
• Island Arc
• Flat land
• Earthquakes

What geologic feature/event you be most likely to find at a transform boundary?

• Earthquakes
• Volcanoes
• Mountains
• Rift Valleys

This is the slow moving layer of the earth on which pieces of the lithosphere move.

• Lithosphere
• Asthenosphere
• Mesosphere
• Crust

This layer is divided into pieces called tectonic plates.

• Mesosphere
• Asthenosphere
• Mantle
• Lithosphere

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

• The shape of the continents coastlines

• Similar fossils of land dwelling organisms found on separate continents

• Glacial striations found in hot climates

• None of the above

This type of crust is dense, thin, and made of basalt.

• continental crust

• oceanic crust

• convergent boundary

• divergent boundary