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Plate Tectonics Lesson 2: Seafloor Spreading

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 21mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Geologist and Navy Admiral who mapped the seafloor in WWII discovering the Mid Atlantic Ridge and ocean trenches which led to his theory of 'seafloor spreading'

a)

Alfred Wegener

b)

Harry Hess

2.

Technology that Harry Hess used to map the ocean floor.

a)

SONAR

b)

LASER

c)

Echo Boom

d)

Drone

3.

2 types of SONAR

a)

Passive and Active

b)

Conductor and Insulator

c)

Round and Square

d)

Light and Dark

4.
True or False : Sea-floor Spreading adds new material to the ocean floor?
a)
True
b)
False
5.
What are Mid-Ocean Ridges?
a)
A chain of underwater waterfalls 
b)
A chain of underwater volcanos
c)
A chain of underwater mountains
d)
A chain of underwater rocks
6.
The oceanic crust is pushed aside on both sides of the 
a)
Continent's edge
b)
Deep-ocean trench
c)
Mid-ocean ridge
7.
New crust is always formed at the...
a)
mid-ocean ridge
b)
deep-ocean trench
c)
asthenosphere
8.

In Seafloor Spreading, molten material rises from the mantle and erupts or flows out

a)

along the edges of all the continents

b)

in the deep ocean trenches

c)

along mid-ocean ridges

d)

in the north and south poles

9.

Hot, less dense materials below the Earth's crust ______to the surface at the mid ocean ridges.

a)

rises

b)

falls

c)

disappears

d)

shrinks

10.

Process of heated liquids or gases becoming less dense and rising.

a)

Convection

b)

Conduction

c)

Radiation

d)

Emitting

11.

Earth magnetic field is know to ________ over time

a)

flip

b)

stay the same

c)

be steady

d)

get stronger

12.

Iron minerals from the mid ocean ridge track to direction of the Earths magnetic poles. This created a record of seafloor spreading.

a)

True

b)

False