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The Continental Drift Hypothesis

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The scientist who proposed the idea of continental drift.

a)

Mrs. Marusarz

b)

Alfred Wegener

c)

Bill Nye

d)

Albert Einstein

2.

Explain the idea of continental drift.

a)

The theory that the continents are slowly moving.

b)

The theory that the continents were once all together.

c)

The theory that energy is not created or destroyed.

d)

The theory that continents never move.

3.

Alfred Wegener developed the theory of __________________ as he noticed that the continents could have once been together like a puzzle.

a)

pangae

b)

super continent

c)

subduction zone

d)

continental drift

4.

Alfred Wegener believed that the continents once fit together as a super continent called __________________.

a)

Continental Drift

b)

Pangaea

c)

Super Continent

5.

Which fossils covered more landmasses to help provide evidence of continental drift?

a)

Coal

b)

Glossopteris plants

c)

Appalachian mountain

d)

Earthworms

6.

Alfred Wegener used all three of these cluse to support his continental drift hypothesis except.

a)

climate clues

b)

fossil clues

c)

rock clues

d)

ocean clues

7.

By using climate clues, Wegener studied the sediments deposited by __________________ in South America, Africa, India, and Australia.

a)

glaciers

b)

mountains

c)

water

d)

trenches

8.

A plate boundary where two plates move toward each other collide and uplift, creating mountains.

a)

convergent

subduction

(ocean-to-continent)

(ocean-to-ocean)

b)

convergent

(continent-to-continent)

c)

divergent

d)

transform

9.

A plate boundary where two plates move toward each and collide but the more dense plate goes under the less denser plate creating volcanic mountains.

a)

convergent

subduction

(ocean-to-continent)

(ocean-to-ocean)

b)

convergent

(continent-to-continent)

c)

divergent

d)

transform

10.

A plate boundary where two plates slide horizontally past one another creating friction that commonly causes earthquakes.

a)

convergent

subduction

(ocean-to-continent)

(ocean-to-ocean)

b)

convergent

(continent-to-continent)

c)

divergent

d)

transform

11.

A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other or separate creating sea floor spreading under the water building new crust. Can also occur in the middle of continents and is known as continental rifting.

a)

convergent

subduction

(ocean-to-continent)

(ocean-to-ocean)

b)

convergent

(continent-to-continent)

c)

divergent

d)

transform

12.

The (a)   is broken into eight major plates and many minor ones.

13.

The (a)   is the rigid outer shell of the planet. It is made up of the crust and upper mantle.

14.

The lithosphere is broken into (a)   plates that move slowly over the lower mantle.

15.

Tectonic plates on the planet's surface move because of (a)   currents in the mantle. Hot material rises and cool material sinks.