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- 1. Multiple Choice
Who came up with the theory of continental drift?
Harry Hess
Albert Einstein
Alfred Wegener
Bill Nye the Science Guy
- 2. Multiple Choice
What is the theory of continental drift?
New crust is being created at mid-ocean ridges and is pushing away old crust.
The continents have always stayed in their current location.
The same fossils of plants and animals can be found on the same continents.
The continents had once been joined in a single landmass and have since drifted apart.
- 3. Multiple Choice
Which pieces of evidence did Wegener use to try and prove his theory of continental drift?
Fossils
Ocean currents
Climate change
Land features
- 4. Multiple Choice
Which two continents did Wegener notice fit together like pieces of a puzzle?
Africa and North America
South America and Africa
South America and Europe
Asia and South America
- 5. Multiple Choice
What was the name of the super continent that existed 250 million years ago?
Pangea
Eurasia
Wegenerland
Disneyland
- 6. Multiple Choice
Why did people not believe in Wegener's theory about continental drift?
There was a competing theory at the time that was more believable.
There was no data showing the continents ever moved.
The scientists did not know the force responsible for moving the continents.
The scientist presenting the data was unreliable.
- 7. Multiple Choice
How did fossil evidence support Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift?
Similar fossils are found along continental margins that appear to join together.
Fossils are found in areas where present-day climate could not have supported the organisms that made the fossils.
Similar fossils of land-dwelling dinosaurs are found on continents separated by oceans.
All of the above.
- 8. Multiple Choice
Which of the following statements is false?
Continental crust is less dense than oceanic crust.
Continental crust is made of granite.
Continental crust is younger than oceanic crust.
Continental crust is thicker than oceanic crust.
- 9. Multiple Choice
Plates move away from one another at ________ boundaries.
divergent
transform
convergent
submergent
- 10. Multiple Choice
What is the term for a heavier, denser plate sliding under a less dense plate?
submersion
plate boundary
acceleration
subduction
- 11. Multiple Choice
The crust and the uppermost mantle make up the _________.
lithosphere
asthenosphere
mesosphere
thermosphere
- 12. Multiple Choice
The longest mountain chain in the world, the mid-Atlantic ridge, was produced by which boundary?
divergent
allegiant
convergent
transform
- 13. Multiple Choice
What would you likely find at a convergent boundary between two pieces of continental crust?
volcano
mountains
rift
ridge
- 14. Multiple Choice
In sea-floor spreading, molten material rises from the mantle and erupts
along the edges of all the continents.
along mid-ocean ridges.
in deep-ocean trenches.
at the north and south poles.
- 15. Multiple Choice
Most geologists think that the movement of Earth’s plates is caused by _______
convection.
continental drift.
subduction.
conduction.
- 16. Multiple Choice
Below is a picture of sea-floor spreading. How are the ocean crusts moving?
Converging
Diverging
Sliding
No movement
- 17. Multiple Choice
The San Andreas Fault in California is known as an active earthquake area. What type of
boundary is it?
Converging
Diverging
Transform
Sea Floor Spreading
- 18. Multiple Choice
Earth's lithospheric plates at a rate of a few _____________ every year.
centimeters
miles
kilometers
yards
- 19. Multiple ChoiceThis is a picture of glacier scars found in Africa. What are these evidence for?Africa has always been near the equatorAfrica was once in an area of the Earth that had a very cold climateThe continents have not movedsea floor spreading
- 20. Multiple Choice
The Himalayas are an example of what happens at a?
convergent boundary
divergent boundary
transform boundary
allegiant boundary
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