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Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 10mins
The process that best describes how the ocean floor continues to renew itself
sea floor spreading
subduction
convection
conduction
Formation of volcanoes are generally associated with convergent boundaries only.
TRUE
FALSE
Formation of volcanoes are generally associated with convergent and transform boundaries.
TRUE
FALSE
The approximate plate movement each year
A few millimeters
A few centimeters
A few meters
A few kilometers
Which of the following evidences was NOT presented by Alfred Wegener in support to his theory of the continental drift?
fossil evidence
glacier evidence
puzzle evidence
seafloor spreading
Laurasia is the northern supercontinent composed of Asia, Europe and North America.
TRUE
FALSE
Gondwana is the southern supercontinent composed of Africa, Australia, Antarctica and South America.
TRUE
FALSE
Which layer is described as plastic-like and is said to facilitate the movement of the lithospheric plates?
(a)
Fold mountains are formed from the convergence of a continental plate and an oceanic plate.
TRUE
FALSE
Erosion-formed mountains result from rock erosion and weathering.
TRUE
FALSE
Convergence of two oceanic plates would result in the formation of undersea volcanoes.
TRUE
FALSE
Convergence between an oceanic plate and a continental plate would result in the formation of volcanoes.
TRUE
FALSE
The meteorologist who proposed the Continental Drift Theory
(a)
Which theory explained that continents slowly drifted away from one another to their present positions?
(a)
The process where in one plate slides under another
(a)
Which plant fossils were found in South Africa, Australia, and India?
Carboniferous
Glossopteris
coal
ferns
