Plate Tectonics Quiz

Where do convection currents happen?

• Crust

• Mantle

• Core

• None of the above

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Hot liquids _____ and cold liquids _____.

• sink, sink

• rise, rise

• sink, rise

• rise, sink

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This scientist found most of the evidence for Continental Drift.

• Harry Hess

• Alfred Wegener

• John Smith

• Albert Einstein

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Which of these is a key evidence for Continental Drift?

• Continental shapes

• Rock layers

• Fossil record

• All of the above

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Why causes Earth's plates to move?

• Convection currents

• Magma chambers exploding in the mantle

• New crust being produced

• Fault lines pushing against crust

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Earth's crust is broken into large pieces called _____.

• Faults

• Rifts

• Trenches

• Plates

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Seafloor spreading and subduction refers to ____.

• Continental Drift

• Theory of Plate Tectonics

• Both

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When an oceanic plate hits a continental plate...

• The oceanic plate goes underneath the continental plate

• The continental plate goes underneath the oceanic plate

• The two plates push up to create mountains

• Both the oceanic and continental plate go back into the mantle to get recycled.

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New crust is made at mid-ocean ridges.

• True

• False

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When magma/lava cools it becomes ____.

• Granite

• Volcanic rock

• Limestone

• Shale