WorksheetsUnit 3 Test pt 1
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 6mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Who was the scientist to hypothesis about Pangea?
a)
Alfred Wegener
b)
Aristotle
c)
Hemingway
d)
Isaac Newton
2.
What was Wegener's evidence?
a)
fossils
b)
climate
c)
rocks
d)
GPS
3.
What heats up earth's interior?
a)
pressure
b)
core
c)
radioactive decay
d)
tension
4.
What does radioactive decay cause in the mantle?
a)
differentation
b)
convection currents
c)
heat
d)
p waves
5.
What drives continental drift?
a)
convection currents
b)
p waves
c)
s waves
d)
differentiation
6.
What plate boundary is shown in the figure below?
a)
convergent
b)
divergent
c)
transform
7.
Based on the location of this boundary, what is this boundary called?
a)
oceanic-oceanic convergent boundary
b)
continental-continental convergent boundary
c)
oceanic-continental convergent boundary
8.
Based on the location of this boundary, what is this boundary called?
a)
oceanic-oceanic convergent boundary
b)
continental-continental convergent boundary
c)
oceanic-continental convergent boundary
9.
When one plate is more dense than the other during a convergent boundary what happens?
a)
the less dense plate gets subducted into the mantle
b)
the more dense plate gets subducted into the mantle
c)
the less dense plate forms a mountain
d)
a fault occurs
10.
What plate boundary is the picture demonstrating?
a)
convergent
b)
divergent
c)
transform
11.
What occurs at a oceanic-oceanic divergent boundary?
a)
seafloor spreading
b)
mountains are formed
c)
and island arc is formed
d)
a fault is formed
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