Plate Tectonics Test

At what type of boundary do plates move past each other horizontally?

• divergent

• convergent

• transform

At what type of boundary do plates move away from each other?

• divergent

• convergent

• transform

What type of landform occurs at a divergent boundary separating 2 plates of oceanic crust?

• mountains

• mid-ocean ridge

• tsunami

Which of the major tectonic plates is composed mainly of oceanic lithosphere?

• Pacific

• African

• Eurasian

What feature would you expect to find at the boundary between the pacific and Indo-Australian plates?

• volcano

• mountains

• mid-ocean ridge

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Who proposed their hypothesis of the continental drift in 1912?

• Albert Einstein

• Alfred Wegener

• Dmitri Mendedleev

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Which theory states that the continents were once joined together and over time broke up and drifted apart?

• Continental Drift Theory

• Theory of Plate Tectonics

• The Big Bang Theory

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A giant super continent that existed 300 million years ago was called:

• Asia

• Pacific

• Pangaea

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The lithosphere is the coolest layer of Earth, made up of the:

• Crust and upper mantle

• Continental crust

• Oceanic crust

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The movement of different temperatures of magma in the mantle that causes the plates to move is called:

• Seismic waves

• Convection currents

• Sea-floor spreading

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