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WorksheetsContinental drift
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 6mins
Plate Tectonics supports the idea that all continents were once fused together called _____________ .
The rock cycle
Supercontinent
The crust
Pangea
The evidence is in ______________________, where coastlines and mountain ranges appear to fit together like a puzzle all over the world
Continental drift
Plate Tectonics
The Rock Cycle
Divergent boundaries
Other evidence include __________________ that plate tectonics does occurr in the crust of the Earth.
Rock formation, weather, fossils
Mountain formation, fossils, climate
Land features, fossils, climate
Valleys, Ocean trenches, climate
A theory explaining the structure of the earth's crust is called _________________
Pangea
Plate Tectonics
The Rock Cycle
Sea-floor spreading
What is Pangaea?
The name of a German scientist
Another name for continental drift
The name of the super-continent that existed millions of years ago
The name of ancient fossil
What evidence did Alfred Wegener use to support his theory of continential drift?
Fossil discoveries
The Himalayan Mountains
Ancient maps of the world
Charts of seismic activity
What is true of tectonics plates?
They are constantly moving
Earthquakes cause them to move
They don't move for centuries at a time
There are fewer & fewer of them
Which of the following best describes the location of the mantle?
Above the crust
Between the crust & the lithosphere
Between the crust & the core
Beneath the core
Convention currents are powered by:
Motion
Pressure
Heat
Density
What is this a picture of?
plate tectonics
continental drift
pangaea
glacier scaring
