ES Continental Drift/Plate Boundaries Test

Hotspot: Identify and correctly label the layers of the Earth by dragging and dropping the labels to the correct spot. Note: only 4 labels will be used.

a

b

c

d

Oceanic Core

Outer Core

Middle Core

 Crust

Mantle

Inner Core

Reorder the layers of the Earth from least dense to most dense, from left to right.

• Crust

• Mantle

• Outer Core

• Inner Core

If an object has a mass of 20 grams and a volume of 5 mL, what is its density (g/mL)?

Mathematical Equivalence

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Answer explanation

Density = mass/volume

If the mass of an object remains the same and the volume decreases, the density will ​ (a)   .

• increase
• decrease
• remain the same

What does the theory of continental drift state?

• The continents were once joined in a super-continent and have moved over time
• Continents are stationary and do not move
• The Earth is broken into lithospheric plates that move due to convection currents
• none of the above

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

• Harry Hess

• Alfred Wegener

• Galileo Galilei

• Isaac Newton

According to the continental drift hypothesis, the presence of similar fossils in South America and Africa supports which scientific idea?

• Animals easily and frequently travel from Africa to South America.

• Species of animals probably traveled between continents on natural rafts (such as trees destroyed in tsunamis).

• Land bridges once existed that connected the continents.

• South America and Africa were once connected together.

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Which of the following is evidence that supports continental drift?

• the presence of penguins at both the equator and Antarctica
• fossils of the same plant have been found on several continents
• the presence of glacial features in Antarctica
• the presence of volcanic rock in Antarctica

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What is Pangaea?

• the name of a German scientist
• the name of the super-continent that existed millions of years ago
• another name for continental drift
• the name of an ancient fossil

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The two types of crust are the denser ​ (a)   crust and the least denser ​ (b)   crust.

• oceanic
• continental
• pizza
• mountainous