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Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 35mins
What type of plate boundary is shown in the picture?
Convergent
Divergent
Transform
What type of plate boundary is shown in the picture?
Convergent
Divergent
Transform
What type of plate boundary is shown in the picture?
Convergent
Divergent
Transform
What geologic event would most likely be found at a transform boundary?
Volcano
Mountain
Earthquake
Mid-Ocean Ridge
What landform would you most likely find at a divergent boundary between two pieces of oceanic crust?
Rift Valley
Mountain
Mid-Ocean Ridge
Volcano
What landform would you most likely find at a divergent boundary between two pieces of continental crust?
Mid-Ocean Ridge
Rift Valley
Mountain
Volcano
What landform would you most likely find at a convergent boundary between two pieces of continental crust?
Mid-Ocean Ridge
Oceanic Trench
Mountain
Volcano
What landform would you most likely find at a convergent boundary between two pieces of oceanic crust?
Rift Valley
Mid-Ocean Ridge
Mountain
Ocean Trench
When one tectonic plate sinks under another, this is called...
Convegent
Divergent
Subduction
Transform
Which type of boundary do plates move away from each other?
Convergent
Divergent
Transform
Plates slide past one another at ____ boundaries.
Convergent
Divergent
Transform
When plates collide together, this boundary occurs...
Convergent
Divergent
Transform
Plate movement is caused by ____________.
the rotation of the Earth
convection currents in the mantle
ocean tides
the moon's gravity
The Great Rift Valley in Africa and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge were both created by this type of plate boundary.
Convergent
Divergent
Transform
What are the two types of crust?
Thick and thin
Ocean and basin
Lower and upper
Continental and oceanic
According to Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift,
Earth's surface is made up of seven major landmasses
The continents were once joined together in a single landmass
Earth is slowly cooling and shrinking
the continents DO NOT move
What is Pangaea?
The name of a German scientist
Another name for continental drift
The name of the super-continent that existed millions of years ago
The name of ancient fossil
What type of evidence was NOT used by Alfred Wegener to support his continental drift theory?
evidence from landforms
evidence from human remains
evidence from fossils
evidence from climate
Most geologists rejected Alfred Wegener's idea of continental drift because...
it did not agree with their current theory
Wegener was interested in what Earth was like millions of years ago
Wegener used several different types of evidence to support his hypothesis
Wegener could not identify the force that moved the continents
The geological theory that states that pieces of Earth's lithosphere are in constant, slow motion is the theory of
subduction
plate tectonics
evolution
seafloor spreading
This famous fault in California has a lot of earthquakes!
New Madrid
Denali Fault
Ramapo Seismic Zone
San Andreas Fault
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
The super continent that existed when all continents were together was named
Gondwana
Laurasia
Eurasia
Pangea
Subduction zones occur along
Transform boundaries
Continental-Continental boundaries
Divergent boundaries
Oceanic-Continental boundaries
Most geologists rejected Alfred Wegener's idea of continental drift because...
it did not agree with their current theory
Wegener was interested in what Earth was like millions of years ago
Wegener used several different types of evidence to support his hypothesis
Wegener could not identify the force that moved the continents
What geologic process formed the Himalayas?
two continental plates converging
an earthquake in a subduction zone
a tectonic plate moving over a hot spot
movement at a transform fault boundary
