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PLATE TECTONICS

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The process that best describes how the ocean floor continues to renew itself

a)

sea floor spreading

b)

subduction

c)

convection

d)

conduction

2.

Formation of volcanoes are generally associated with convergent boundaries only.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

3.

Formation of volcanoes are generally associated with convergent and transform boundaries.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

4.

The approximate plate movement each year

a)

A few millimeters

b)

A few centimeters

c)

A few meters

d)

A few kilometers

5.

Which of the following evidences was NOT presented by Alfred Wegener in support to his theory of the continental drift?

a)

fossil evidence

b)

glacier evidence

c)

puzzle evidence

d)

seafloor spreading

6.

Laurasia is the northern supercontinent composed of Asia, Europe and North America.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

7.

Gondwana is the southern supercontinent composed of Africa, Australia, Antarctica and South America.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

8.

Which layer is described as plastic-like and is said to facilitate the movement of the lithospheric plates?

(a)  

9.

Fold mountains are formed from the convergence of a continental plate and an oceanic plate.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

10.

Erosion-formed mountains result from rock erosion and weathering.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

11.

Convergence of two oceanic plates would result in the formation of undersea volcanoes.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

12.

Convergence between an oceanic plate and a continental plate would result in the formation of volcanoes.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

13.

The meteorologist who proposed the Continental Drift Theory

(a)  

14.

Which theory explained that continents slowly drifted away from one another to their present positions?

(a)  

15.

The process where in one plate slides under another

(a)  

16.

Which plant fossils were found in South Africa, Australia, and India?

a)

Carboniferous

b)

Glossopteris

c)

coal

d)

ferns