Unit 7 2023

Who is the person credited with developing the theory of continental drift?

• Albert Einstein
• Drake
• Albert Wegener
• Newton

Why did no one believe Wegener's theory?

• He couldn't explain how the continents moved
• He didn't have evidence
• the data was wrong
• He didn't use the correct technology

What would you likely find at a convergent boundary between two pieces of continental crust?

• mountains
• rift
• volcano
• ridge

What do you call the supercontinent landmass formed million years ago?

• Pangaea
• land
• Asia
• Pandora

Earth's lithospheric plates move at a rate of a few _____________ every year.

• meters
• centimeters
• yards
• miles

A tectonic plate is ____.

• What cavemen ate dinner on
• pieces of Earth's crust
• the Earth
• underground volcano

When crust is neither created nor destroyed, what boundary is it formed along?

• divergent
• subduction
• Convergent
• transform

Is the outer core a liquid or solid?

• liquid
• solid
• gas

Which layer of Earth is located above the outer core?

• mantle
• lithosphere
• crust
• inner core

Once magma reaches the earth's surface it is called.....

• water
• lava
• rock