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2nd Evidence Review

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the process that Harry Hess discovered where new land is created at a divergent boundary and old land is pushed further out?
a)
Convergent Boundary
b)
Seafloor Spreading
c)
Continental Drift
d)
Convection Current
2.
According to the map below, which color represents both the youngest and oldest land?
a)
youngest land- red, oldest land- green
b)
youngest land- yellow, oldest land- purple
c)
youngest land- red, oldest land- purple
d)
youngest land- green, oldest land- blue
3.
What is it called when a more dense plate drives underneath a less dense plate at a convergent boundary?
a)
Seafloor Spreading
b)
Plate Boundary Zone
c)
Subduction
d)
Mantle
4.
Name the boundary.
a)
convergent boundary
b)
divergent boundary
c)
transform boundary
d)
sergent boundary
5.
What is Pangaea?
a)
A German Scientist
b)
the name of the supercontinent that existed millions of years ago
c)
continental drift
d)
an ancient fossil
6.

What type of plate boundary is this?

a)

Plate

b)

Divergent

c)

Convergent

d)

Transform

7.

On average, the Americas move about one inch further away from Europe each year. The picture shows how Europe and America are moving.

a)

Divergent

b)

Sliding

c)

Subduction

d)

Convergent

8.

What boundary creates a trench?

a)
convergent
b)
divergent
c)
transform
d)
fast
9.
Which of these will most likely happen because the lithospheric plates move away from each other?
a)
New sea floor forms.
b)
There will be a deep trench where the plates move apart.
c)
The ocean level will become lower.
d)
The outer core will cool down.
10.

What is the primary force that drives the movement of the Earth's tectonic plates?

a)

The Earth's rotation

b)

Convergent boundaries

c)

Convection currents in the mantle

d)

Gravitational pull from the sun

11.
How is it possible for new crust to be formed without increasing the surface area of the Earth?
a)
Crust is destroyed at the same time it is created
b)
New crust is underwater where it sinks
c)
New crust breaks more easily than old crust
12.

Which statement BEST explains the theory of tectonic plates?

a)

Earth's plates move slowly over time.

b)

Earth's plates have always been spread apart.

c)

Earth's plates are moving closer together.

d)

Earth's plates have never, ever moved.

13.

Which layer of the Earth is broken into several large tectonic plates?

a)

Crust

b)

Mantle

c)

Core

d)

Lithosphere

14.

What is formed when an oceanic plate collides with a continental plate?

a)

Mountain range

b)

Volcanic island

c)

Subduction zone

d)

Rift valley

15.
At which type of plate boundary does seafloor spreading occur?
a)
Tranform
b)
Convergent
c)
Divergent
d)
Subductive Zone
16.
The youngest material of the ocean floor is found at mid-ocean _________.
a)
ridges
b)
trenches
c)
basins
d)
rifts
17.

Seafloor spread occurs because....

a)

Plates are smashing together and oozing apart

b)

Magma below the Earth's crust is forced up toward the surface after plates move apart and cools adding new rock to the plates

c)

Volcanoes erupting

d)

The Earth's magnetic poles are reversing

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