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Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics

Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 23mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What type of boundary is illustrated in the diagram?

a)

Convergent

b)

Divergent

c)

Transform

2.

What type of crust is involved in the illustration?

a)

Oceanic-Oceanic

b)

Continental-Continental

c)

Oceanic-Continental

3.

What type of crust is involved in the illustration?

a)

Oceanic-Oceanic

b)

Continental-Continental

c)

Oceanic-Continental

4.

What type of boundary is illustrated in the diagram?

a)

Convergent

b)

Divergent

c)

Transform

5.

What layer is labeled #6 in the diagram?

a)

lithosphere

b)

mesosphere

c)

asthenosphere

d)

outer core

6.

What layer is labeled #7 in the diagram?

a)

lithosphere

b)

mesosphere

c)

asthenosphere

d)

outer core

7.

Which number represents the crust?

a)

1

b)

2

c)

3

d)

4

8.

Which number designates the inner core?

a)

3

b)

4

c)

5

d)

6

9.

What type of boundary would create a feature as seen in the image?

a)

Convergent

b)

Divergent

c)

Transform

d)

None of the above

10.

This boundary is an example of constructive, destructive, or neither?

a)

constructive

b)

destructive

c)

neither

11.

What type of boundary is illustrated in the diagram?

a)

Convergent

b)

Divergent

c)

Transform

12.

Is this boundary constructive, destructive, or neither?

a)

Constructive

b)

Destructive

c)

Neither

13.

What area is created when thinner, denser plate is forced under the thicker, less dense plate?

a)

trench

b)

subduction zone

c)

ridge

d)

mountains

14.

Which of the characteristics describe continental crust? (select two)

a)

Thick

b)

Thin

c)

more dense

d)

less dense

15.

Which of the characteristics describe oceanic crust? (select two)

a)

Thick

b)

Thin

c)

more dense

d)

less dense

16.

Which German-born scientist first proposed the theory of continents moving slowly across the Earth?

a)

Albert Einstein

b)

Alfred Wegener

c)

James Hutton

d)

Harry Hess

17.

Which of the following pieces of evidence was NOT supported in the Theory of Continental Drift?

a)

Fossil Correlation

b)

Geologic Evidence

c)

Topographic Fit

d)

Time capsules unearthed

18.

What two theories led the way for the modern Theory of Plate Tectonics? (Select two)

a)

Law of Superposition

b)

Theory of Continental Drift

c)

Theory of Uniformtarianism

d)

Sea-floor Spreading

19.

Which landform is not supported by the MODERN Theory of Plate Tectonics?

a)

Faults

b)

Volcanoes

c)

Canyons

d)

Mountains

20.

What type of feature is the result of continental-continental crust diverging?

a)

Fault

b)

Subduction Zone

c)

Ridge

d)

Rift Valley

21.

What type of heat transfer occurs in fluids?

a)

Conduction

b)

Convection

c)

Radiation

d)

Electromagnetic

22.

Which layer of the Earth is broken into plates floating on a semi-liquid?

a)

asthenosphere

b)

mesosphere

c)

mantle

d)

lithosphere

23.

What layer of semi-liquid rock do the tectonic plates slowly float?

a)

lithosphere

b)

mesosphere

c)

asthenosphere

d)

crust