Unit 3 Test pt 1

Who was the scientist to hypothesis about Pangea?

• Alfred Wegener
• Aristotle
• Hemingway
• Isaac Newton

What was Wegener's evidence?

• fossils
• climate
• rocks
• GPS

What heats up earth's interior?

• pressure
• core
• radioactive decay
• tension

What does radioactive decay cause in the mantle?

• differentation
• convection currents
• heat
• p waves

What drives continental drift?

• convection currents
• p waves
• s waves
• differentiation

What plate boundary is shown in the figure below?

• convergent
• divergent
• transform

Based on the location of this boundary, what is this boundary called?

• oceanic-oceanic convergent boundary
• continental-continental convergent boundary
• oceanic-continental convergent boundary

Based on the location of this boundary, what is this boundary called?

• oceanic-oceanic convergent boundary
• continental-continental convergent boundary
• oceanic-continental convergent boundary

When one plate is more dense than the other during a convergent boundary what happens?

• the less dense plate gets subducted into the mantle
• the more dense plate gets subducted into the mantle
• the less dense plate forms a mountain
• a fault occurs

What plate boundary is the picture demonstrating?

• convergent
• divergent
• transform