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Tectonic Plates

Total questions: 24

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

He proposed the Continental Drift Theory.

a)

Francis Bacon

b)

Alfred Wegener

c)

Harry Hess

d)

Benjamin Franklin

2.

He hypothesized that all continents were once part of a supercontinent called ________.

a)

Pangaea

b)

Gondwana

c)

Laurasia

d)

Asia

3.

What are the evidences of Wegener's Theory?

a)

1. Fit to coastlines

2. Rocks and Mountain Ranges

3. Tidal Waves

4. Seafloor Spreading

b)

1. Fit of the Coastlines

2. Fossil Evidence

3. Rocks and Mountain Ranges

4. Paleoclimatic Evidence

4.

This fossil was a woody plant that had very heavy seeds that could not be moved by the wind to far distances.

a)

European flora

b)

Mesosaurus

c)

Glossopteris

d)

Cynognathus

5.

What do you call the marks that glaciers leave as they slowly move?

a)

Striations

b)

Satriations

c)

Sitritions

d)

Satritions

6.

What are Tectonic Plates/

a)

A continent

b)

The plate that move the Continents

c)

The plates that move underground

7.

We can use rocks and mountain ranges as evidence for continental drift theory.

a)

True

b)

False

8.

What was the objection that critics had about Wegener's continental drift theory?

a)

He could not provide any evidence to support the theory

b)

Findings had no basis

c)

Idea of mechanism capable of moving the continents physically impossible

9.

He published 'The History of Ocean Basins" in 1962. This theory later became known as Seafloor Spreading.

a)

Alfred Wegener

b)

Harry Hess

c)

Francis Bacon

d)

John Wilson

10.

He proposed that Earth's crust was divided into several plates that fits together like puzzle along the cracks of the lithosphere.

a)

Alfred Wegener

b)

Harry Hess

c)

John Wilson

d)

Francis Bacon

11.

It is the process which heat is transferred by the movement of a heated fluid.

a)

Convection

b)

Ridge Push

c)

Slab pull

12.

It happens because mid-ocean ridges lies at a higher elevation than the surrounding abyssal plains or seafloor causing the gravitational force to act on the rocks at the ridge.

a)

convection

b)

ridge push

c)

slab pull

13.

It is the pulling force exerted by colder, denser plate plunging into the mantle due to its own weight.

a)

convection

b)

ridge push

c)

slab pull

14.

Convection happens because of changes in ________ and ________ of a material

a)

temperature/density

b)

volume/mass

15.

What is the source of the heat that causes convection to happen?

a)

Radioactive Ionization

b)

Radioactive Decay

16.

In what layer of the Earth does convection happen?

a)

Lithosphere

b)

Asthenosphere or upper mantle

c)

Mantle

d)

Inner core

17.

What are the 7 major tectonic plates on Earth?

(a)  

18.

Identify the plate boundary

a)

Divergent Plate Boundary

b)

Convergent Plate Boundary

c)

Transform Plate Boundary

d)

Seafloor Spreading

19.

Identify the image

a)

Divergent Plate Boundary

b)

Convergent Plate Boundary

c)

Seafloor Spreading

d)

Transform plate Boundary

20.

Identify the image

a)

Divergent Plate Boundary

b)

Convergent Plate Boundary

c)

Transform Plate boundary

21.

Identify the image

a)

Divergent Plate Boundary

b)

Convergent Plate Boundary

c)

Transform Plate Boundary

22.

Which is the Oceanic-Oceanic Plate Convergence

a)
b)
23.

Which is the continental-continental plate convergence?

a)
b)
24.

Which is the Oceanic-Continental Plate Convergence?

a)
b)