8R Quiz: Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics

The longest mountain chain in the world, the mid-Atlantic ridge, was produced by which boundary?

• convergent

• transform

• divergent

• subduction

What are the remains of organism noticed by Wegener that are found the same in two continents?

• Plants and animals fossils

• Mineral deposits

• Rock formations

• Meteorite fragments

As new oceanic crust forms, the older crust moves...

• towards the ridges

• away from the ridges

• upwards towards the surface

• downwards into the mantle

A tectonic plate is ____.

• pieces of Earth's crust

• a type of rock

• a layer of the atmosphere

• a form of water

What would you likely find at a convergent boundary between TWO pieces of CONTINENTAL crust?

• volcanoes

• ocean trenches

• mountains

• earthquakes

When crust is neither created nor destroyed, what boundary is it formed along?

• divergent

• convergent

• transform

• subduction

What is one of the first clues that many people notice about continental drift?

• the continents appear to fit together like puzzle pieces.

• the presence of similar fossils on different continents.

• the alignment of mountain ranges across continents.

• the variation in climate between continents.

What technology was used during WWII to detect enemy submarines and produce the first map of the seafloor?

• Sonar

• Radar

• Lidar

• Sonobuoy

What type of evidence was NOT used by Alfred Wegener to support his continental drift hypothesis?

• evidence from the development of the computer

• fossil evidence from different continents

• geological similarities between continents

• climate evidence from glacial deposits

Mapping the locations of rocks gives clues as to how they may have moved along cracks in the crust called ______________.

• faults

• fractures

• joints

• fissures