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WorksheetsChapter 5 Vocab Quiz
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
The hypothesis that the continents slowly move across the Earth's surface.
a)
Continental Drift
b)
Pangaea
c)
Seafloor Spreading
d)
Mid-ocean Ridge
2.
The name of the single landmass that began to break apart 200 million years ago and gave rise to today's continents.
a)
Continental Drift
b)
Pangaea
c)
Seafloor Spreading
d)
Mid-ocean Ridge
3.
The preserved remains or traces of an organism that lived in the past.
a)
Fossil
b)
Pangaea
c)
Organic cells
d)
Geologic record
4.
An undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor is produced.
a)
Continental Drift
b)
Pangaea
c)
Seafloor Spreading
d)
Mid-ocean Ridge
5.
The process by which molten material adds new oceanic crust to the ocean floor
a)
Continental Drift
b)
Pangaea
c)
Seafloor Spreading
d)
Mid-ocean Ridge
6.
A deep valley along the ocean floor beneath which oceanic crust slowly sinks toward the mantle
a)
Continental Drift
b)
Deep-ocean trench
c)
Seafloor Spreading
d)
Mid-ocean Ridge
7.
The process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary.
a)
Subduction
b)
Deep-ocean trench
c)
Seafloor Spreading
d)
Mid-ocean Ridge
8.
A section of the lithosphere that slowly moves over the asthenosphere, carrying pieces of continental and oceanic crust.
a)
Subduction
b)
plate
c)
Divergent boundry
d)
convergent
9.
A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other
a)
Subduction
b)
plate
c)
Divergent boundary
d)
convergent boundry
10.
A plate boundary where two plates move towards each other
a)
Subduction
b)
plate
c)
Divergent boundary
d)
convergent boundary
11.
A plate boundary where two plates move past each other in opposite directions
a)
Transform boundary
b)
Rift Valley
c)
Divergent boundary
d)
convergent boundary
12.
A deep valley that forms where two plates move apart.
a)
Transform boundary
b)
Rift Valley
c)
Divergent boundary
d)
convergent boundary
13.
The theory that pieces of the Earth's lithosphere are in constant motion, driven by convection currents in the mantle.
a)
Continental Drift
b)
Pangaea
c)
Seafloor Spreading
d)
Plate Tectonics
14.
A force that acts on rock to change it shape or volume.
a)
Fault
b)
Rift Valley
c)
Divergent boundary
d)
Stress
15.
A break in the Earth's crust along which rocks move.
a)
Fault
b)
Rift Valley
c)
Divergent boundary
d)
Stress
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