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Plate Tectonics

Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 12mins

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Class
Date
1.

To support his hypothesis of continental drift, Alfred Wegner used three pieces of evidence:

a)

Climate Evidence

b)

Fossils, Reptiles and Ferns

c)

Evidence from rock formations

d)

All of the above

2.

Isochron maps of the seafloor ages indicate that ocean crust is ____.

a)

Older Near mid-ocean ridges

b)

Younger Near mid-ocean ridges

c)

Made of Fruit Roll-ups

d)

Less dense than Continental crust

3.

Tectonic plates interact or meet at places called plate ___________.

a)

Plate Parties

b)

Plate Stations

c)

Plate Boundaries

d)

Plate Junctions

4.

Features found at divergent boundaries include _______.

a)

Mid-Ocean Ridges

b)

Mountians

c)

Trenches

d)

Island Arc Volcanoes

5.

Continental drift was not widely accepted when it was first proposed because _________.

a)

Wegener was not very well liked.e

b)

Wegener was really young.

c)

Wegener couldn't explain the mechanism.

d)

Most people thought the earth was flat.

6.

What type of geologic feature can form when portions of subducted ocean plates melt and magma is forced upward in the ocean?

a)

Earthquakes

b)

Deep sea trench and volcanic island arcs

c)

Hot spots

d)

Mid-ocean ridges

7.

Oceanic crust is made mostly of __________________.

a)

Iron

b)

Fruit Roll-up

c)

Granite

d)

Basalt

8.

Coal beds in Antarctica indicated to Wegener that this continent was ________________________.

a)

A leader in fossil fuels

b)

once tropical, located closer to the equator

c)

Under water

d)

Hit by a giant meteor

9.

Continental-continental plate collisions form ___________.

a)

Deep Sea Trenches

b)

Earthquakes

c)

Volcanoes

d)

very tall folded mountain ranges

10.

Places where tectonic plates move apart are called _____________________.

a)

Transverse

b)

Convergent Boundaries

c)

Divergent Boundaries

d)

Collective Boundaries

11.

Places where tectonic plates come together are called ___________________.

a)

Convergent Boundaries

b)

Divergent Boundaries

c)

Transform Boundaries

d)

Border Boundaries

12.

At which tectonic plate boundary is crust neither destroyed nor formed? Instead, plates slide horizontally past each other at a _____________.

a)

Winter Solstice

b)

Divergent

c)

Transform

d)

Convergent

13.

The driving forces of tectonic plates are related to convection currents in Earth’s ___________________________.

a)

Mantle

b)

Crust

c)

Core

d)

Lithosphere

14.

The magnetic pattern of ocean-floor rocks on one side of an ocean ridge is ________________________.

a)

Easy to see from a submarine

b)

Hard to see from a submarine

c)

younger than on the other side

d)

a mirror image of that on the other side

15.

A vast, underwater mountain chain is called a(n) _________.

a)

Subduction Zone

b)

mid-ocean ridge

c)

Deep Ocean Trench

d)

Island Arc Volcano

16.

Which theory states that Earth’s crust and rigid upper mantle are broken into pieces that move in different directions and at different rates over Earth’s surface?

a)

Theory of Plate Tectonics

b)

Theory Pangea Explosion

c)

Theory of Earth Puzzles

d)

Theory of Thermodynamics

17.

Wegener’s hypothesis of continental drift was later supported by what geological feature?

a)

sea-floor spreading

b)

the rock cycle

c)

volcanoes

d)

earthquakes

18.

The San Andres Fault is an example of what kind of plate boundary?

a)

Divergent

b)

Convergent

c)

Transform

d)

Personal Boundaries

19.

What kind of boundary is this?

a)

Ocean-Ocean Divergent

b)

Ocean-Continental Divergent

c)

Ocean-Ocean

Convergent

d)

Ocean-Divergent Convergent

20.

What feature is found at the B label?

a)

Seafloor Spreading

b)

Volcano

c)

Trench

d)

Subduction

21.

What process is illustrated by the area labeled G?

a)

Subduction

b)

Sublimation

c)

Convection

d)

Radiation

22.

The supercontinent in the continental drift hypothesis was called ___________.

a)

North America

b)

PanPizza

c)

Pangea

d)

Earthzilla

23.

The formation of the Hawaiian Islands is associated with ________.

a)

Great vacations

b)

Hot spot in the middle of a plate

c)

Transform plate boundaries

d)

Johannes Kepler