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WorksheetsPlate tectonics
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Pangaea is a theory where all continents began as
one big country
one big continent
A ______ is a section of the lithosphere that slowly moves over the asthenosphere, carrying large slabs of continental and oceanic crust.
wedge
plate
fault
chunk
What is the name of the single landmass that began to break apart 200 million years ago?
Panthalassa
Laurasia
Gondwanaland
Pangaea
The movement of fluid, caused by differences in temperature, that transfers heat from one part of the fluid to another is
Convection current
Seismic waves
Conduction current
Sea-floor spreading
_____________ is a plate boundary where two plates move away from each other.
Convergent boundary
Transform boundary
Divergent boundary
Destructive boundary
_____________ is when two plates move toward each other.
Convergent boundary
Transform boundary
Divergent boundary
Constructive boundary
A _____________ is when two plates move past each other in opposite directions.
Convergent boundary
Transform boundary
Divergent boundary
Constructive boundary
___________ is the theory that pieces of Earth's lithosphere are in constant motion, driven by convection currents in the mantle
Seismic waves
Convection current
Plate tectonics
Drift theory
Earth's plates meet at ____________.
plate tectonics
plate boundaries
continental drift
oceans
What is the motion of Earth's plates like?
fast and in stages
slow and in stages
fast and constant
slow and constant
