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Changing Earth Theories and Plate Boundaries

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 19mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the name of the supercontinent made up of all 7 continents?
a)
All land
b)
Gondwandoland
c)
Pangaea
d)
America
2.

What is the name of the theory that Earth's crust is broken up into pieces that are in constant motion?

a)

Plate tectonics

b)

Pangaea

c)

Continental drift

d)

Transform boundary

3.
What is the cycle of heating and cooling of magma in the mantle that moves the Earth's plates?
a)
Convection currents
b)
Magma currents
c)
lava flows
d)
Earth currents
4.
When 1 plate sinks below another _________ occurs
a)
Subduction
b)
Destruction
c)
Divergent 
d)
Earthquakes
5.
Which of the following choices correctly states the 2 types of crust?
a)
Oceanic and Magma crust
b)
Continental and Oceanic crust
c)
American and Pacific crust
d)
Continental and Atlantic crust
6.
What landform can you find at a convergent boundary ?
a)
Mountains
b)
Ocean trenches
c)
Mid-ocean ridges
d)
Fault
7.
What landform can you find at a subduction zone where oceanic crust hits continental crust?
a)
Mountains
b)
Ocean trenches
c)
Mid-ocean ridges
d)
Fault
8.
What landform can you find at a divergent boundary where oceanic crust separates from oceanic crust?
a)
Mountains
b)
Ocean trenches
c)
Mid-ocean ridges
d)
Fault
9.
What landform can you find at a transform boundary?
a)
Mountains
b)
Ocean trenches
c)
Faults
d)
Rift Valley
10.
What is the area where 2 tectonic plates meet called?
a)
Plate boundary
b)
Mid-Ocean ridge
c)
Fault
d)
Earth Crack
11.
What do you call an underwater mountain range at a divergent boundary?
a)
Mid-Ocean ridge
b)
plate boundaries
c)
fault
d)
under sea 
12.
_______ is a crack in the Earth's crust at a transform boundary.
a)
Plate boundary
b)
Mid-Ocean Ridge
c)
Fault
d)
Earthquake
13.
The puzzle shape of the continents was evidence for which of the following theories?
a)
Pangaea
b)
Newton's Theory
c)
Tectonic  Plates
d)
Moving Earth Theory
14.
Who proposed the theories of Pangaea and Continental Drift?
a)
Alfred Wegener
b)
Harry Hess
c)
Andrew Jackson
d)
Dwayne Johnson
15.

Which of the following was not used as evidence to support the tectonic plate theory

a)

Matching fossils on different continents

b)

Similar landforms on different continents

c)

Similar weather on different continents

d)

The continents fit together like puzzle pieces

16.

Which of the following bests describes a convergent boundary?

a)

plates are colliding

b)

plates are separating

c)

one plate sinks below the other when they collide

d)

plates are sliding next to each other

17.

Which of the following bests describes a divergent boundary?

a)

plates are colliding

b)

plates are separating

c)

one plate sinks below the other when they collide

d)

plates are sliding next to each other

18.

Which of the following bests describes a transform boundary?

a)

plates are colliding

b)

plates are separating

c)

one plate sinks below the other when they collide

d)

plates are sliding next to each other

19.

Which of the following bests describes a subduction zone boundary?

a)

plates are colliding

b)

plates are separating

c)

one plate sinks below the other when they collide

d)

plates are sliding next to each other

20.

Which of the following answers lists the mechanical layers of Earth involved in plate movement?

a)

Lithosphere and atmosphere

b)

Mantle and crust

c)

Asthenosphere and Lithosphere

d)

Hydrosphere and atmosphere