Plate Tectonics

What was Wegener's hypothesis called?

• The Pangea 
• Moving Continents 
• The Continental Drift
• Techtonic Plates

Any trace of an ancient organism that has been preserved in rock is called a

• landform

• continent

• fossil

• landmass

What evidence was NOT used by Wegener as proof of continental drift?

• mountains

• erosion

• volcanoes

• fossils

Subduction means.....

• one plate goes under another plate

• two plates slide past each other

• two plate collide and form folded mountains

Which explains that the continents were once joined together and over time they broke up and then drifted apart?

• Plate Tectonic Theory
• Continental Drift 

Which of these explains that Earth's outer layer is broken into large slowly moving pieces? 

• Plate Tectonic Theory
• Continental Drift 

Which type of crust is more dense and thinner?

• Continental
• Asthenosphere
• Oceanic
• Byers

Earth's plates meet at ____________.

• plate tectonics

• plate boundaries

• continental drift

• oceans

Mountains form from ...

• plates sliding past one another
• collision of plates
• plates moving away from each other

This feature can be found along a divergent boundary

• mid-ocean ridge

• folded mountains

• deep sea trench