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Distribution of Ocean and Continents

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Polar fleeing force relates to:

a)

a. REVOLUTION OF THE EARTH

b)

b. GRAVITATION

c)

c. ROTATION OF THE EARTH

d)

d. TIDES

2.

Which one of the following is not a minor plate?

a)

Nazca

b)

Arabia

c)

Philippines

d)

Antarctica

3.

Which one of the following is the type of plate boundary of the Indian plate along the Himalayan Mountains?

a)

Ocean-continent convergence

b)

Divergent boundary

c)

Transform boundary

d)

Continent-continent convergence.

4.

Name the smallest continent.

a)

Asia

b)

Europe

c)

Africa

d)

Australia.

5.

Which country has gold bearing veins?

a)

Australia

b)

Russia

c)

Brazil

d)

South Africa.

6.

By which method have facilitated correlating the rock formation from different continents across oceans?

a)

The radiometric dating methods

b)

Carbon 14 method

c)

Radioactive method

d)

Fling Method

7.

What percent of the earth is covered with land and water respectively?

a)

29% of the earth is covered with land and 71% is covered with water

b)

71% of the earth is covered with land and 29% is covered with water.

c)

36% of the earth is covered with land and 64% is covered with water.

d)

64% of the earth is covered with land and 36% is covered with water

8.

What was the name given by Alfred Wegener to a large continent surrounded with water?

a)

Pangaea

b)

Panthalassa

c)

Angaraland

d)

Gondwanaland

9.

Who was the profounder of continental drift theory?

a)

Arthur Holmes

b)

McKenzie, Parker and Morgan

c)

Admans Heinz

d)

Alfred Wegener.

10.

What was the name given to massive ocean by Wegener?

a)

Pangaea

b)

Panthalassa

c)

Angara land

d)

Gondwanaland.

11.

According to the plate tectonic theory, how many major plates are there?

a)

7

b)

9

c)

11

d)

12

12.

Tillite is formed due to

a)

Deposits on mountains

b)

Deposits on volcanoes

c)

Deposits on glaciers

d)

Deposits on gold

13.

A tectonic plate is a slab of

a)

Molten rocks

b)

Solid rocks

c)

Hot rocks

d)

Small rocks

14.

The sites where the plates move away from each other are called as

a)

Subduction zone

b)

Transform Boundaries

c)

Convergent Boundaries

d)

Spreading sites

15.

The best known example of divergent boundaries is

a)

Spreading sites

b)

Subduction zones

c)

Mid- Atlantic ridges

d)

Transform plate movement