Worksheets2nd 9-Weeks Review
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 16mins
What is the Theory of Continental Drift?
New continents are continually being created
and destroyed.
The layout of the continents is the same today
as it has always been
The continents have always been separate but
may one day drift together to form a single
continent
All the continents were once one continent that
broke up and drifted apart over hundreds of
millions of years
What type of tectonic plate boundary involves a collision of plates?
transform
divergent
convergent
obstructive
When crust is neither created nor destroyed, what boundary is it formed along?
convergent
divergent
collisional
transform
Who came up with the theory of continental drift?
Harry Hess
Albert Einstein
Alfred Wegener
Bill Nye the Science Guy
What was the name of the super continent that existed 250 million years ago?
Pangea
Eurasia
Wegenerland
Disneyland
Plates move away from one another at ________ boundaries.
divergent
transform
convergent
submergent
In sea-floor spreading, molten material rises from the mantle and erupts
along the edges of all the continents.
along mid-ocean ridges.
in deep-ocean trenches.
at the north and south poles.
The San Andreas Fault in California is known as an active earthquake area. What type of
boundary is it?
Converging
Diverging
Transform
Sea Floor Spreading
The Himalayas are an example of what happens at a?
convergent boundary
divergent boundary
transform boundary
allegiant boundary
What is a tracing of an earthquake's motion that is created by a seismometer?
Seismograph
Seismogram
Seismologist
Elastic Rebound
What is the instrument used to measure earthquakes?
Seismograph
Sling Psychrometer
Spring Scale
Balance
Anemometer
