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Sea floor spreading

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What are three pieces of evidence that support sea floor spreading?

a)

Evidence from molten material that creates mid ocean ridge

b)

Rocks are younger near ridge and older further from ridge

c)

Magnetic polar reversals every 250,00 years

d)

deep oceanic trenches are helping create the mantle

2.

Old oceanic floor is destroyed at

a)

Subduction zones/ trenches

b)

Mantle

c)

Inner core

d)

Outer core

3.

Deep oceanic trenches are some of the deepest parts of the ocean floor where the oceanic crust slowly sinks toward the mantle

a)

false

b)

True

4.

Where is new oceanic floor created at and how is it created

a)

Created by mountains, outer core

b)

created by volcanic eruptions, mid ocean ridges

c)

Created by volcanic eurptions, inner core

d)

Mantle

5.

What are mid oceanic ridges?

a)

Underwater volcanos

b)

Subduction zones

c)

Underwater chain of mountains where new sea floor is produced

d)

I don’t even know dude

6.

what is convection?

a)

outer core expanding

b)

Movement of sea floor

c)

The Tenputure of water

d)

The transfer of heat by the movement of particles in fluids

7.

What causes sea floor spreading? And movement of tectonic plates

a)

density

b)

Conviction currents from mantle

c)

Concection currents from inner core

d)

Tempiture of water

8.

Convection currents begin when there are differences in tempuryre and density in a fluid

a)

True

b)

False

9.

The heat from the core of the earth causes convection currents in the mantle

a)

False

b)

True

10.

Where do convection currents take place at?

a)

Inner core

b)

Outer core

c)

Athenosphere

d)

Lithosphere