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Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics

Authored by Miroslava Zavala

Science

7th Grade

Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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Who is the person credited with developing the theory of continental drift?

Harry Hess
Galileo
Alfred Wegener
Newton

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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Why did no one accept Wegener's theory?

He could not explain HOW the continents moved
He didn't have evidence
His data was wrong
He didn't use the right technology to gather data

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

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What does the word Pangea mean?

one place

old land
all land

island

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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What are the three types of Evidence that supports Alfred Wegener's Theory?

Fossils, Fish, and Land

Sedimentary, Magma, and Climate

Fossils, Land forms, and Climate

Climate, Land forms, and Metamorphic rock

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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Most geologists think that the movement of Earth's tectonic plates is caused by

the rotation of the Earth.

the Earth's magnetic field.

subduction.

convection currents.

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

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the process by which new oceanic crust forms as magma rises toward the surface and solidifies

divergent boundary

mid ocean ridge

convergent boundary

sea floor spreading

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

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what is the name of the undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor is produced at a divergent plate boundary?

fault

convection currents

trench

mid ocean ridge

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