Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics Quiz

What evidence supports Wegener’s hypothesis?

• The same mammal species exist on different continents.

• Major rivers on different continents match.

• Land bridges still exist that connect major continents.

• Fossils of the same organism have been found on different continents.

The driving force behind plate movement is the process of what occurring in the mantle?

• Convection

• Conduction

• Radiation

• Diffusion

What are produced by continental lithospheric plates interacting at convergent boundaries?

• Mountains

• Volcanoes

• Earthquakes

• Rift Valleys

Alfred Wegener hypothesized that __________ was broken apart by the process of continental drift.

• Pangaea

• Gondwana

• Laurasia

• Eurasia

The largest of the lithospheric plates covers most of which ocean?

• Atlantic Ocean

• Indian Ocean

• Pacific Ocean

• Arctic Ocean

What causes the thermal convection that drives plate motion?

• seafloor spreading

• differences in temperature and density

• gravity

Wegener’s continental drift hypothesis stated that all the continents once joined together to form

• two major supercontinents.

• two major supercontinents and three smaller continents.

• one major supercontinent.

• three major supercontinents.

The appearance of what at Earth’s surface is evidence of mantle plumes?

• Volcanoes

• Mountains

• Earthquakes

• Rift Valleys

What is the main source of downward convection movement in the mantle?

• ridge-pull

• ridge-push

• slab-push

• slab-pull

Layers of __________ found in Africa, South America, India, and Australia help to support the continental drift hypothesis.

• Coal

• Sandstone

• Limestone

• Basalt