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WorksheetsELS LA#7
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 12mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Who proposed the Theory of Continental Drift?
a)
Alfred Wegener
b)
Neil Armstrong
c)
Albert Einsten
d)
Mang Tani
2.
Harley is a paleontologist and found a piece of fossil in North America similar to the fossil he also found in Greenland. What does this statement imply? It provided an evidence for ______________.
a)
Plate Tectonics Theory
b)
Continental Drift Theory
c)
Geologic Time Scale
d)
Presence of early extraterrestrial life
3.
Which is known as the single supercontinent that was first published in the book entitled, "The Origin of the Continents and Oceans" in 1915?
a)
Pangea
b)
Pangga
c)
Pangaea
d)
Mangga
4.
Which study emerged as these topographic data of trenches, mid-ocean ridges, underwater valleys, and heat flow measurements revived the interest of the idea of drifting continents?
a)
Continental Drift Theory
b)
Plate Tectonics Theory
c)
Planetesemal Hypothesis
d)
Seafloor Spreading Theory
5.
Why is it the fit of the continents has been disputed as an evidence of Continental Drift Theory? Because _________________.
a)
shorelines were continuously being modified by wave erosions
b)
weathering explains these fitting
c)
ages of rocks in the shoreline were different to neighboring places
d)
organisms could not physically crossed the oceans because organisms adapt
6.
The Lystrosaurus and Cynognathus are land reptiles whose fossils were found across South America, Africa, India, and Antartica. These organisms cannot swim. What could've happened?
a)
The organisms flew away.
b)
The organisms must have lived side by side and then lands drifted.
c)
The organisms teleported from time to time.
d)
The organisms are targeted for extinction.
7.
If the glaciers have the same glacial tills and striations but differ in location, what evidence of continental drift does it infer?
a)
Fossil Match
b)
Fit of continents
c)
Glacial and Paleoclimate evidence
d)
Similarity in geologic units and structures
8.
Grock discovered the similarities of geologic structures, ages of rocks and its types on opposite sides of Atlantic Ocean. What evidence of continental drift does it infer?
a)
Glacial and Paleoclimate evidence
b)
Fossil Match
c)
Fit of continents
d)
Similarity in geologic units and structures
9.
What is the largest continent?
a)
Europe
b)
China
c)
Pacific
d)
Russia
10.
What is the smallest continent?
a)
China
b)
Australia
c)
Indian
d)
Antartica
11.
What is the largest ocean basin?
a)
Indian
b)
Atlantic
c)
Pacific
d)
Europe
12.
What is the smallest ocean basin
a)
Atlantic
b)
Chinese
c)
Pacific
d)
Indian
13.
How much of earth is covered with water?
a)
0.69
b)
0.71
c)
0.75
d)
0.98
14.
_____________ is a geologic process where there is a gradual addition of new oceanic crust in the ocean floor through a volcanic activity while moving the older rocks away from the mid-oceanic ridge.
a)
Continental Drift Theory
b)
Plate Tectonics Theory
c)
Planetesemal Hypothesis
d)
Seafloor Spreading Theory
15.
Who proposed the Seafloor Spreading Theory?
a)
Harry Hess
b)
Harry Potter
c)
Alfred Wegener
d)
Albert Einstein
16.
Thermal Convection currents causes the formation of ______________.
a)
Mid-ocean ridges
b)
Surface volcanoes
c)
Deep-sea trenches
d)
magma chambers
17.
How do mid-ocean ridges created?
a)
Thermal convection currents
b)
Upwelling
c)
Surface run-off
d)
Volcanism
18.
What does mid-ocean ridges create?
a)
New oceanic crust
b)
New continental crust
c)
Old oceanic crust
d)
Old continental crust
19.
Which is denser?
a)
Oceanic Crust
b)
Continental Crust
20.
Which would like to occur in oceanic crusts of it reaches a coastline?
a)
Formation of Subduction Zone
b)
Creation of volcanoes
c)
Mid-ocean ridges
d)
Magma returns to outer core
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