6th Grade Chapter 7 Test

Who proposed the Continental Drift Theory in 1912?

• Charles Darwin

• Alfred Wegener

• Isaac Newton

• Albert Einstein

What was the name of the supercontinent that existed around 335 million years ago?

• Gondwana

• Laurasia

• Pangaea

• Atlantis

What does the Theory of Plate Tectonics describe?

• The formation of stars

• The movement of Earth's lithosphere

• The water cycle

• The life cycle of plants

What occurs at divergent boundaries?

• Earthquakes along faults

• Mountain ranges and volcanic arcs

• Mid-ocean ridges and seafloor spreading

• Formation of deserts

What is subduction?

• The process of creating new crust

• The process where one tectonic plate is forced under another

• The sliding of plates past each other

• The formation of oceanic ridges

What occurs at divergent boundaries?

• Plates slide past each other.

• New crust is created as plates pull apart.

• Plates collide and form mountains.

• Oceanic plate subducts below continental plate.

Which of the following is an example of a transform boundary?

• Mid-Atlantic Ridge

• Andes Mountains

• San Andreas Fault in California

• Mariana Islands

What is a result of convergent boundaries?

• Seafloor spreading

• Earthquakes, volcanic activity, mountain formation

• New crust creation

• Plates sliding past each other

What type of boundary involves plates sliding past each other?

• Divergent boundaries

• Convergent boundaries

• Transform boundaries

• Subduction boundaries

What boundary creates mountains?

• convergent
• divergent
• transform
• fast

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2