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Plate Tectonics and Continental Drift

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the charge of a proton?

a)

positive

b)

negative

c)

no charge

2.

Which is NOT a subatomic particle

a)

proton

b)

neutron

c)

electron

d)

nucleus

3.

Who is known for the theory of Continental Drift

a)

Alfred Wegner

b)

Sir Issac Newton

c)

Harry Hess

d)

Dmitri Mendeleev

4.

What is the driving force behind plate tectonics?

a)

convection currents in the mantle

b)

Earth's magnetic field

c)

Strong winds from storms

d)

waves and tides

5.

Which lunar phase provides the highest high tides

a)

Full Moon

b)

1st Quarter Moon

c)

3rd Quarter Moon

d)

Waxing crescent

6.

Which of the following was evidence Wegner provided for Plate Tectonics

a)

Identical fossils of plants and animals on different continents

b)

Weather patterns

c)

ocean tides

d)

erosion

7.

What is the name of the supercontinent Alfred Wegner used?

a)

Pangea

b)

Laurasia

c)

Euamerica

d)

Wakanda

8.

Which is not a plate boundary in plate tectonics

a)

Vibranium

b)

Transform

c)

Divergent

d)

Convergent

9.

Which Plate boundary shows plates sliding past each other?

a)

Transform

b)

Divergent

c)

Convergent

d)

Conduction

10.

Which Heat transfer refers to TOUCH

a)

Conduction

b)

Convection

c)

Radiation

d)

Convergent

11.

Which is a land feature created by transform boundaries

a)

Fault Lines

b)

Rift- Valleys

c)

Mid-Ocean ridges

d)

Islands

12.

What is the most famous Fault line in the the world?

a)

San Andreas Fault

b)

Hawaiian Islands

c)

Himalayan

d)

Andes Mountains

13.

Divergent Boundaries can also be called

a)

Constructive

b)

Destructive

c)

Fault Lines

d)

Shearing

14.

Which is an example of Divergent Boundaries

a)

Mid- Atlantic Ridge

b)

Himalayas

c)

Aleutian Islands

d)

San Andreas Fault

15.

When more dense oceanic crust collide with less dense continental crust which will sink into the mantle

a)

Oceanic crust will sink because it is more dense

b)

Continental crust will sink because it is more dense

c)

Oceanic crust will rise because it is less dense

d)

Neither plate will sink

16.

Which is an example of continental/ continental convergent boundaries

a)

Himalayan (Mountains)

b)

San Andreas fault

c)

Iceland

d)

Aleutian Islands

17.

Which is an example of subduction?

a)

Andes Mountains

b)

Himalayan Mountains

c)

Aleutian Islands

d)

San Andreas Fault

18.

At the Mid-Atlantic Ridge the new crust is...

a)

Closer to the opening of the ridge

b)

Far away from the ridge

c)

On land

d)

There isn't any new crust being formed

19.

Which of the following helped Harry Hess to discover the seafloor was spreading

a)

Age of the rock near the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

b)

Weather patterns

c)

Fossils of the same plants on different continents

d)

Earthquakes

20.

Transform boundaries create

a)

Earthquakes

b)

Mountains

c)

Valleys

d)

Mid-ocean ridges