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WorksheetsDistribution of Ocean and Continents
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 5mins
Polar fleeing force relates to:
a. REVOLUTION OF THE EARTH
b. GRAVITATION
c. ROTATION OF THE EARTH
d. TIDES
Which one of the following is not a minor plate?
Nazca
Arabia
Philippines
Antarctica
Which one of the following is the type of plate boundary of the Indian plate along the Himalayan Mountains?
Ocean-continent convergence
Divergent boundary
Transform boundary
Continent-continent convergence.
Name the smallest continent.
Asia
Europe
Africa
Australia.
Which country has gold bearing veins?
Australia
Russia
Brazil
South Africa.
By which method have facilitated correlating the rock formation from different continents across oceans?
The radiometric dating methods
Carbon 14 method
Radioactive method
Fling Method
What percent of the earth is covered with land and water respectively?
29% of the earth is covered with land and 71% is covered with water
71% of the earth is covered with land and 29% is covered with water.
36% of the earth is covered with land and 64% is covered with water.
64% of the earth is covered with land and 36% is covered with water
What was the name given by Alfred Wegener to a large continent surrounded with water?
Pangaea
Panthalassa
Angaraland
Gondwanaland
Who was the profounder of continental drift theory?
Arthur Holmes
McKenzie, Parker and Morgan
Admans Heinz
Alfred Wegener.
What was the name given to massive ocean by Wegener?
Pangaea
Panthalassa
Angara land
Gondwanaland.
According to the plate tectonic theory, how many major plates are there?
7
9
11
12
Tillite is formed due to
Deposits on mountains
Deposits on volcanoes
Deposits on glaciers
Deposits on gold
A tectonic plate is a slab of
Molten rocks
Solid rocks
Hot rocks
Small rocks
The sites where the plates move away from each other are called as
Subduction zone
Transform Boundaries
Convergent Boundaries
Spreading sites
The best known example of divergent boundaries is
Spreading sites
Subduction zones
Mid- Atlantic ridges
Transform plate movement
