Plate Tectonics and Continental Drift Quiz

What is a transform boundary?

• Places where plates slide sideways past each other

• Type of ocean current

• Type of mountain range

• Type of volcanic eruption

What is Pangea?

• Hypothetical landmass that existed when all continents were joined

• Largest ocean on Earth

• Type of volcanic island

• Type of tectonic plate

What is a divergent boundary?

• A crustal feature that exists between two tectonic plates moving away from each other

• Type of mountain range

• Type of ocean current

• Type of volcanic eruption

What are tectonic plates?

• Pieces of Earth's crust and uppermost mantle

• Layers of the Earth's atmosphere

• Types of ocean currents

• Types of volcanic eruptions

What is a convergent boundary?

• Type of boundary where 2 plates meet together and start to push against one another

• Type of ocean current

• Type of mountain range

• Type of volcanic eruption

Who originated the theory of continental drift?

• Alfred Wegner

• Charles Darwin

• Isaac Newton

• Marie Curie

What is lithosphere?

• The crust and upper mantle of the earth

• The core of the earth

• The atmosphere of the earth

• The ocean floor

What is an earthquake?

• Caused by a sudden slip on a fault

• Type of volcanic eruption

• Type of ocean current

• Type of mountain range

What is subduction?

• Takes place at convergent boundary where 1 plate moves under another and is forced to sink

• Type of volcanic island

• Type of tectonic plate

• Type of ocean current

What is the Plate Tectonics theory?

• Theory of how continents shift position

• Theory of the Earth's rotation

• Theory of the Earth's core

• Theory of the Moon's formation