Plate tectonics Quiz

________ was an ancient reptile that lived in South America and Africa during the late Paleozoic.

• Mesosaurus

• Tyrannosaurus

• Stegosaurus

• Pterodactyl

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In the early part of the twentieth century, ________ argued forcefully for continental drift.

• Alfred Wegener

• Isaac Newton

• Charles Darwin

• Galileo Galilei

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

The former late Paleozoic supercontinent is known as ________.

• Pangaea

• Gondwana

• Laurasia

• Rodinia

The ________ is an example of an active, continent-continent collision.

• northward movement of India into Eurasia

• eastward movement of South America into Africa

• westward movement of Australia into Antarctica

• southward movement of North America into South America

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Pull-apart rift zones are generally associated with a _______ plate boundary.

• divergent

• convergent

• transform

• subduction

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

The temperature below which magnetic material can retain a permanent magnetization is called the _______.

• Curie point

• Boiling point

• Melting point

• Freezing point

A very long-lived magma source located deep in the mantle is called a _______.

• hot spot

• rift zone

• subduction zone

• mid-ocean ridge

Linear, magnetic patterns associated with mid-ocean ridges are configured as _______.

• normal and reversed magnetized strips roughly parallel to the ridge

• randomly oriented magnetic fields

• concentric circles around the ridge

• vertical stripes perpendicular to the ridge

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The _______ is (are) a logical evolutionary analog of the African Rift Valleys ten million years from now.

• Red Sea

• Amazon River

• Himalayan Mountains

• Sahara Desert

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

A typical rate of seafloor spreading in the Atlantic Ocean is _______.

• 2 centimeters per year

• 5 centimeters per year

• 10 centimeters per year

• 15 centimeters per year