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Plate Tectonics Warm Up

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 19mins

Name

Class

Date

A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other is called

Divergent Boundary

Convergent Boundary

Transform Boundary

Subduction

Scientists hypothesize that a super continent existed 200 million years ago. This continent is called

America

Super Earth

Pangea

Eurasia

A Plate Boundary where two plates move toward each other is called

Convergent Boundary

Divergent Boundary

Transform Boundary

Subduction

Convergent Plate Movement can create

Rifts

Mountains

Ocean Ridges

Radiation

_______________ Currents within the mantle cause the earth's plates to move and shift s molten material rises and falls due to density and gravity

Convection

Radiation

Conduction

Wind

What forms at a convergent boundary between a continental plate and an oceanic plate?

volcanoes

rift valleys

faults

mid-ocean ridges

What type of boundary occurs when two plates slide past each other?

divergent

transform

lateral

convergent

The process where oceanic crust slides under another plate and is melted is called ___________.

seafloor spreading

subduction

continental drift

recycling

What kind of plate boundary is shown here?

divergent

convergent

transform

subducting

10.

What kind of plate boundary is shown here?

divergent

convergent

transform

submergent

11.

What kind of plate boundary is shown here?

divergent

convergent

transform

strike slip

12.

Who is credited with proposing the hypothesis of Continental Drift?

Harry Hess

Galileo Galilei

Alfred Wegener

Isaac Newton

Albert Einstein

13.

What happens to temperature and pressure as you get to deeper layers within Earth?

Temperature and Pressure increase

Temperature increases, Pressure decreases

Temperature decreases, Pressure increases

Temperature and Pressure decreases

14.

The idea that the continents were once together, and separated over a long period of time is

Seafloor Spreading

Transform Boundaries

Continental Drift

Mid Ocean Ridges

15.

Which of the following is a feature common with transform boundaries?

Volcanoes

Mountain chains

Ocean Trenches

Earthquakes

16.

What evidence did Wegener use in his theory?

Continents and fossils fitting together/matching-up like puzzle pieces

glacier scars and evidence from temperature

mountain ranges and coal deposits line up across continents

all of the above

17.

What two specific continents fit together most noticeably?

Africa and North America

South America and Europe

South America and Africa

Antartica and Africa

18.

What is the force that moves the continents?

Conduction

Convection

Radiation

Conveyor belts

19.

What are the two types of crust?

continental and oceanic

ocean and basin

lower and upper

thick and thin

20.

What type of evidence was NOT used by Alfred Wegener to support his continental drift hypothesis?

evidence from landforms

evidence from fossils

evidence from human remains

evidence from climate

21.

What causes the continents to move?

Magma

Tectonic Plates

Earthquake

All of the choices

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Plate Tectonics Warm Up

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 19mins

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