WorksheetsPlate Tectonics
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 12mins
To support his hypothesis of continental drift, Alfred Wegner used three pieces of evidence:
Climate Evidence
Fossils, Reptiles and Ferns
Evidence from rock formations
All of the above
Isochron maps of the seafloor ages indicate that ocean crust is ____.
Older Near mid-ocean ridges
Younger Near mid-ocean ridges
Made of Fruit Roll-ups
Less dense than Continental crust
Tectonic plates interact or meet at places called plate ___________.
Plate Parties
Plate Stations
Plate Boundaries
Plate Junctions
Features found at divergent boundaries include _______.
Mid-Ocean Ridges
Mountians
Trenches
Island Arc Volcanoes
Continental drift was not widely accepted when it was first proposed because _________.
Wegener was not very well liked.e
Wegener was really young.
Wegener couldn't explain the mechanism.
Most people thought the earth was flat.
What type of geologic feature can form when portions of subducted ocean plates melt and magma is forced upward in the ocean?
Earthquakes
Deep sea trench and volcanic island arcs
Hot spots
Mid-ocean ridges
Oceanic crust is made mostly of __________________.
Iron
Fruit Roll-up
Granite
Basalt
Coal beds in Antarctica indicated to Wegener that this continent was ________________________.
A leader in fossil fuels
once tropical, located closer to the equator
Under water
Hit by a giant meteor
Continental-continental plate collisions form ___________.
Deep Sea Trenches
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
very tall folded mountain ranges
Places where tectonic plates move apart are called _____________________.
Transverse
Convergent Boundaries
Divergent Boundaries
Collective Boundaries
Places where tectonic plates come together are called ___________________.
Convergent Boundaries
Divergent Boundaries
Transform Boundaries
Border Boundaries
At which tectonic plate boundary is crust neither destroyed nor formed? Instead, plates slide horizontally past each other at a _____________.
Winter Solstice
Divergent
Transform
Convergent
The driving forces of tectonic plates are related to convection currents in Earth’s ___________________________.
Mantle
Crust
Core
Lithosphere
The magnetic pattern of ocean-floor rocks on one side of an ocean ridge is ________________________.
Easy to see from a submarine
Hard to see from a submarine
younger than on the other side
a mirror image of that on the other side
A vast, underwater mountain chain is called a(n) _________.
Subduction Zone
mid-ocean ridge
Deep Ocean Trench
Island Arc Volcano
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?
Theory of Plate Tectonics
Theory Pangea Explosion
Theory of Earth Puzzles
Theory of Thermodynamics
Wegener’s hypothesis of continental drift was later supported by what geological feature?
sea-floor spreading
the rock cycle
volcanoes
earthquakes
The San Andres Fault is an example of what kind of plate boundary?
Divergent
Convergent
Transform
Personal Boundaries
What kind of boundary is this?
Ocean-Ocean Divergent
Ocean-Continental Divergent
Ocean-Ocean
Convergent
Ocean-Divergent Convergent
What feature is found at the B label?
Seafloor Spreading
Volcano
Trench
Subduction
What process is illustrated by the area labeled G?
Subduction
Sublimation
Convection
Radiation
The supercontinent in the continental drift hypothesis was called ___________.
North America
PanPizza
Pangea
Earthzilla
The formation of the Hawaiian Islands is associated with ________.
Great vacations
Hot spot in the middle of a plate
Transform plate boundaries
Johannes Kepler
