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Week 2 Quiz

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What does the theory of Continental Drift explain?

a)

Ocean currents move continents around the planet

b)

Convection works deep within the asthenosphere

c)

Mid-ocean ridges force tectonic plates to move

d)

Continents were once together and slowly drifted to where they are today

2.

Who was the scientist who proposed the theory of continental drift?

a)

Alfred Powell

b)

Harry Hess

c)

Alfred Wegener

d)

Ernest Rutherford

3.

Where does seafloor spreading take place?

a)

Convergent boundaries

b)

The continentals shelves

c)

Transform boundary

d)

Mid-ocean ridges

4.

Mountains are created along

a)

Transform boundaries

b)

Continental-Continental Convergent

c)

Divergent

d)

Oceanic-Continental Convergent

5.

How do the plates move along a divergent boundary?

a)

They move towards one another

b)

They move away from one another

c)

They move past one another

d)

One move up the other moves down

6.
A unit of geologic time that subdivides eras
a)
period
b)
time span
7.
The geologic time scale is a record of....
a)
the history of fossils only
b)
the history of rocks
c)
the history of rock layers and fossils
d)
geologist notes
8.

Which eon represents the longest period of time?

a)

Precambrian

b)

Mesozoic

c)

Jurassic

d)

Paleozoic

9.

The Green highlighted portion refers to ____ on the geological time scale.

a)

Eons

b)

Eras

c)

Periods

d)

Epochs

10.

Change in climate during which glaciers covered much of the Earth

a)

Extinction

b)

Mass Extinction

c)

Climate Change

d)

Ice Age

11.

Process that uses the properties of atoms in rocks and other objects to determine their ages

a)

relative dating

b)

radioactive decay

c)

absolute dating

12.

Method by which order of events or age of rocks is determined by examining the position of rocks in a layer

a)

relative dating

b)

absolute dating

c)

radiometric dating