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WorksheetsContinental Dift and Plate techonics
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 12mins
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Class
Date
1.
What is Continental Drift?
a)
The splinting of Mr.Mathews's hair line
b)
The Continents coming together as they drift back to become one
c)
The splinting and drifting of Continents
d)
A door opening To the seinfeld theme
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2.
What are Tectonic Plates?
a)
A continent
b)
The Trees in Vietnam
c)
ThE PlaTES That MoVE uNdERGRound :)
d)
The Plates that move the Continents
3.
What is a Theory?
a)
An Idea That gets brought to the public
b)
Răspunsul
c)
An Idea that gets brought to the public.
4.
Which type of plate boundary would cause folded mountains to form?
a)
transform
b)
convergent
c)
divergent
d)
Both have to due with the movement on conteinents and the movement of the sea flore
5.
What are the two types of crust?
a)
continental and oceanic
b)
ocean and basin
c)
lower and upper
d)
thick and thin
6.
The Great Rift Valley in Africa and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge were both created by this type of plate boundary.
a)
divergent
b)
convergent
c)
transform
d)
subduction
7.
What is Pangaea?
a)
the name of a German scientist
b)
the name of the super-continent that existed millions of years ago
c)
another name for continental drift
d)
the name of an ancient fossil
8.
A rift valley forms at a
a)
convergent plate boundary
b)
divergent plate boundary
c)
transform boundary
d)
deep ocean trench
9.
The San Andreas fault is an example of
a)
a convergent boundary
b)
a divergent boundary
c)
a transform boundary
d)
strike-slip fault
10.
The theory of continental drift is based on
a)
plate locations
b)
historic manuscripts
c)
seafloor spreading
d)
convergent seafloor boundaries
11.
How are the theory of continetal drift and plate techtonics similar?
a)
Both have to due with plates in the ground
b)
Both have to due with contintens moving closer together
c)
Both have deal with the ground
d)
Both have to due with the movement on conteinents and the movement of the sea floor
12.
True or False: Were tectonic plates and Continental Drift theorize by the same person
a)
True
b)
False
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