WorksheetsWeek 2 Quiz
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 7mins
What does the theory of Continental Drift explain?
Ocean currents move continents around the planet
Convection works deep within the asthenosphere
Mid-ocean ridges force tectonic plates to move
Continents were once together and slowly drifted to where they are today
Who was the scientist who proposed the theory of continental drift?
Alfred Powell
Harry Hess
Alfred Wegener
Ernest Rutherford
Where does seafloor spreading take place?
Convergent boundaries
The continentals shelves
Transform boundary
Mid-ocean ridges
Mountains are created along
Transform boundaries
Continental-Continental Convergent
Divergent
Oceanic-Continental Convergent
How do the plates move along a divergent boundary?
They move towards one another
They move away from one another
They move past one another
One move up the other moves down
Which eon represents the longest period of time?
Precambrian
Mesozoic
Jurassic
Paleozoic
The Green highlighted portion refers to ____ on the geological time scale.
Eons
Eras
Periods
Epochs
Change in climate during which glaciers covered much of the Earth
Extinction
Mass Extinction
Climate Change
Ice Age
Process that uses the properties of atoms in rocks and other objects to determine their ages
relative dating
radioactive decay
absolute dating
Method by which order of events or age of rocks is determined by examining the position of rocks in a layer
relative dating
absolute dating
radiometric dating
