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Dynamic Earth Part 1 Review

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
  • The Theory of Continental Drift states

a)
  • All the continents were part of a supercontinent called Pangaea

b)

The continents quickly broke apart

c)

All the continents are part of a supercontinent called Pangea

d)

Pangea wouldn't wanna be ya

2.

Name That Boundary

a)

Convergent

b)

Divergent

c)

Transform

3.

Name That Boundary

a)

Convergent

b)

Divergent

c)

Transform

4.

Match Alfred's Evidence

a)

Similarities in the shapes of the continents

1.

Puzzle Pieces Evidence

b)
  • Similar rock formations on the continents in the Northern Hemisphere.

2.

Rock Formation Evidence

c)
  • Fossils of a plant called Glossopteris have been discovered in rocks from South America, Africa, India, Antarctica, and Australia.

3.

Fossil Evidence: Plants

d)

Fossils of a freshwater reptile called Mesosaurus were discovered in found solely in Southern Africa and Eastern South America

4.

Fossil Evidence: Animals

5.

True or False

The continental drift hypothesis suggested that continents are in a constant state of rest on the surface of Earth.

a)

True

b)

False

6.
  • 100 years ago, German Climatologist, ________________, published his theory of Continental Drift.

a)

Alfred

Pennyworth

b)

Alfred Schwarzenegger

c)

Alfred

Wegener

d)

DJ Koelling

7.

During his lifetime, the main objection to Alfred Wegener’s proposal was the inability to find _________________ for continental drift.

a)

evidence

b)

forces responsible

c)

an example

d)

a timeline

8.

A break in Earth’s lithosphere along which movement occurs is called a(n) ____.

a)

Fails

b)

Faults

c)

Strain

d)

Stress

9.
  • These seafloor mapping showed large mountain ranges that stretched for many miles along the seafloor and are much larger than any mountain range on land are called___________

a)

Mid-Ocean Ridges

b)

Mid-Ocean Trenches

c)

Underwater Mountains

d)

Mountains of the Deep

10.
  • A hot plastic-like layer under the lithosphere, flows below Earth’s plates and enables the plates to move.

a)

Tectonic Plates

b)

Soggy Crust

c)

Lithosphere

d)

Asthenosphere

11.
  • _____________________is an area along the edges of tectonic plates

a)

Plate Lines

b)

Fault

c)

Boundary

d)

Plate Boundary

12.

​ Match the the following terms.

a)
  • Boundary formed when two plates collide.

1.

Convergent

b)
  • Boundary formed when two plates separate

2.

Divergent

c)
  • Boundary formed when two plates slide past each other

3.

Transform

d)

Area between two plates

4.

Plate Boundary

13.

Name That Boundary

a)

Convergent

b)

Divergent

c)

Transform

14.

Name That Boundary

a)

Convergent

b)

Divergent

c)

Transform

15.

Match the following landmasses and natural disasters to the boundary it occurs

a)

Volcanoes

1.

Convergent-Subduction

b)

Mountains

2.

Convergent

c)

Mid-Ocean Ridge

3.

Divergent

d)

Earthquakes

4.

Convergent or Transform

16.

Where can volcanoes form?

a)

Convergent Plate Boundaries

b)

Divergent Plate Boundaries

c)

Over Hotspots in the middle of plates

d)

All the above

17.

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

a)

deep-sea trench

b)

oceanic crust

c)

ocean ridge

d)

ocean floor sediment

18.

The Himalayan mountain range of India was formed at a ____.

a)

Transform Boundary

b)

Divergent Boundary

c)

Convergent Boundary

d)

Hot Spot

19.

Active volcanoes are most likely to form at ____.

a)

Divergent Boundaries

b)

Transform Boundaries

c)

Center of Continents

d)

Convergent Boundaries

20.

Ocean trenches are formed along lines where two plates diverge under the water.

a)

True

b)

False