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Continental drift and Plate Tectonics

Total questions: 52

Worksheet time: 36mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the Theory of Continental Drift?

a)

New continents are continually being created

and destroyed.

b)

The layout of the continents is the same today

as it has always been

c)

The continents have always been separate but

may one day drift together to form a single

continent

d)

All the continents were once one continent that

broke up and drifted apart over hundreds of

millions of years

2.

When crust is neither created nor destroyed, what boundary is it formed along?

a)

convergent

b)

divergent

c)

collisional

d)

transform

3.

What type of tectonic plate boundary involves a collision of plates?

a)

transform

b)

divergent

c)

convergent

d)

obstructive

4.

Where do most volcanoes occur?

a)

convergent boundaries

b)

in deserts

c)

on coastal plains

d)

divergent boundaries

5.

What is responsible for the volcanoes and mountain ranges?

a)

Weathering

b)

Super-nocturnal tides

c)

Hurricanes

d)

Plate Tectonics

6.

Continents to continent plate boundaries produce what feature when they collide?

a)

Rift Valleys

b)

Mid-ocean ridges

c)

Tall mountain ranges

d)

Deep-sea trenches

7.

What type of boundary exists when 2 plates are pulling apart?

a)

Convergent

b)

Transform

c)

Obtrusive

d)

Divergent

8.

Where do volcanoes and earthquakes occur?

a)

Under the flat surface of plates

b)

Above the flat surface of the plates

c)

Along plate boundaries

d)

At the center of plate

9.

The cause of earthquakes and how they are formed is the

a)

Greenhouse Effect in the Ozone

b)

melting of glacial ice in global warming

c)

movement of continental plates

d)

meteors that hit earth's surface from space

10.

What is the most likely reason the bones of the reptiles were found on more than one continent?

a)

Location geographically

b)

Flooding

c)

Plate Tectonics

d)

Hurricane displacement

11.

Rift Valley is a feature of what plate boundary?

a)

Obtrusive

b)

Divergent

c)

Transform

d)

Convergent

12.

Why does the Ring of Fire around the Pacific Ocean have the most volcanoes?

a)

boundary plates

b)

divergent plate

c)

convergent plates

d)

transform plates

13.

The theory of continental drift states that all the continents were once part of one big landmass called Pangaea. Who was the scientist that came up with this theory?

a)

Harry Hess

b)

Bill Nye

c)

Alfred Wegener

d)

Albert Einstein

14.

Tectonic plates float on top of the

a)

crust

b)

asthenosphere

c)

lower mantle

d)

outer core

15.

The San Andres Fault is an example of a

a)

convergent boundary

b)

divergent boundary

c)

transform boundary

d)

subduction zone

16.

What type of plate boundary is shown in this picture

a)

a convergent oceanic-oceanic boundary

b)

a divergent oceanic-oceanic boundary

c)

a convergent oceanic-continental boundary

d)

a divergent oceanic-continental boundary

17.

What was the name of the super continent that existed 250 million years ago?

a)

Pangea

b)

Eurasia

c)

Wegenerland

d)

Disneyland

18.

What would you likely find at a convergent boundary between two pieces of continental crust?

a)

volcano

b)

mountains

c)

rift

d)

ridge

19.

Most geologists think that the movement of Earth’s plates is caused by _______

a)

convection.

b)

continental drift.

c)

subduction.

d)

conduction.

20.
What is the force that moves the continents? 
a)
Conduction 
b)
Convection 
c)
Radiation 
d)
Conveyor belts 
21.
What are the two types of crust?
a)
continental and oceanic
b)
ocean and basin
c)
lower and upper
d)
thick and thin
22.
The geological theory that states that pieces of Earth's lithosphere are in constant, slow motion is the theory of
a)
subduction
b)
plate tectonics
c)
evolution
d)
seafloor spreading
23.

any natural feature of the earth's surface

a)

Landforms

b)

Rivers

c)

Sand Dune-

24.

a vent in the crust of the earth from which usually molten or hot rock and steam is released

a)

Mountain

b)

Delta

c)

Volcano

25.

Study of plates, their movement, and Earth’s features that they affect

a)

Plate boundaries

b)

Plate Tectonics

c)

Major mountains

26.

the region where two lithospheric plates meet

a)

Continental Drift

b)

Plate tectonics

c)

Plate Boundaries

27.

The idea that continents were once part of a single landmass that broke apart and

moved

a)

Continental Drift

b)

Tectonic Plates

c)

Transform

28.

Boundary between two plates where the plates are sliding past each other

a)

Divergent-

b)

Convergent-

c)

Transform-

29.

Forms where plates are moving away from each other

a)

Divergent-

b)

Convergent-

c)

Transform-

30.

Formed where two sections of Earth’s crust are colliding

a)

Divergent-

b)

Convergent-

c)

Transform-

31.

Who is the person credited with developing the theory of continental drift?

a)

Harry Hess

b)

Alfred Wegener

c)

Galileo

32.

What is this a picture of?

a)

Pangaea

b)

Plate tectonics

c)

Glaciers

33.

What do you call the evidence of Wegener's Theory that tells about the remains of an organism that lived long time ago?

a)

Ashes

b)

Bones

c)

Fossils

34.

What two specific continents fit together most noticeably?

a)

Africa and North America

b)

South America and Africa

c)

Antarctica and Africa

35.

Where the plates touch is called the ____________.

a)

Fault

b)

Continental Drift

c)

Volcano

36.

The movement of tectonic plates is caused by

a)

earth's rotation

b)

movement in the mantle

c)

gravity

37.

New oceanic crust (sea floor) is created at this boundary.

a)

Divergent Oceanic

b)

Divergent Continental

c)

Convergent Oceanic

d)

Transform

38.

Oceanic crust (sea floor) is destroyed at this boundary.

a)

Convergent Oceanic

b)

Divergent Oceanic

c)

Convergent Continental-Continental

d)

Divergent Continental

39.

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

a)

seafloor spreading

b)

subduction

c)

continental drift

d)

recycling

40.

What two crustal features occur near every subduction zone?

a)

Volcanoes and Trenches

b)

Rift Valleys and Mid Ocean Ridges

c)

Volcanoes and Rift Valleys

d)

Mid Ocean Ridges and Trenches

41.

A divergent boundary on land creates what feature?

a)

Mid Ocean Ridge

b)

Rift Valley

c)

Subduction Zone

d)

Deep Ocean Trench

42.

A divergent boundary in the ocean creates what feature?

a)

Mid Ocean Ridge

b)

Rift Valley

c)

Deep Ocean Trench

d)

Subduction Zone

43.

When two continental plates converge (collide) what type of crustal feature is formed?

a)

Mid Ocean Ridge

b)

Subduction Zone

c)

Rift Valley

d)

Folded Mountains

44.

The process that occurs at a divergent oceanic boundary that creates new crust (sea floor) is called?

a)

Subduction

b)

Seafloor Spreading

c)

Continental Drift

d)

Volcanism

45.

What is the 'magic' that is happening in the mantle that helps move the 'lithospheric plates'?

a)

Convection

b)

Subduction

c)

Seafloor Spreading

46.

If an earthquake occurs at the bottom of the ocean floor what could form as result?

a)

Volcano

b)

Tsumani

c)

Tidal Wave

d)

Hurricane

47.

Aside from Earthquakes, what is the only thing you will find at transform boundaries?

a)

Volcanoes

b)

Subduction Zones

c)

Folded Mountains

d)

Fault lines

48.

What is the only event associated with ALL plate boundaries?

a)

Volcanoes

b)

Earthquakes

c)

Subduction

d)

Deep Trenches

49.

The only type of crust that will subduct if two plates converge is...

a)

Oceanic

b)

Continental

50.

Tsunamis are formed from what two types of convergent boundaries?

a)

Continental-Continental

b)

Oceanic-Continental

c)

Oceanic-Oceanic

51.
What type of plate boundary is this?
a)
Transform
b)
Convergent
c)
Divergent
d)
Plate
52.
When one plate sides under neath another, it _________ and the magma _________.
a)
hardens, sinks
b)
melts, sinks
c)
hardens, rises
d)
melts, rises