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- 1. Multiple Choice
What is the Theory of Continental Drift?
New continents are continually being created
and destroyed.
The layout of the continents is the same today
as it has always been
The continents have always been separate but
may one day drift together to form a single
continent
All the continents were once one continent that
broke up and drifted apart over hundreds of
millions of years
- 2. Multiple Choice
What type of tectonic plate boundary involves a collision of plates?
transform
divergent
convergent
obstructive
- 3. Multiple Choice
What type of boundary exists when 2 plates are pulling apart?
Convergent
Transform
Obtrusive
Divergent
- 4. Multiple Choice
Rift Valley is a feature of what plate boundary?
Obtrusive
Divergent
Transform
Convergent
- 5. Multiple ChoiceWhen two convergent plates come together where the denser one is forced under back into the mantlereductionconductionsubductionconvection
- 6. Multiple ChoiceWhat forms when two continental, convergent plates push together?volcanomountainearthquakesisland
- 7. Multiple ChoiceWegener's evidence supports his theory of a super continent that he named?UltimaPangaeaPlate TectonicsContinental Drift
- 8. Multiple Choice
Name the boundaryconvergent boundarydivergent boundarytransform boundarysergent boundary - 9. Multiple ChoiceName the boundaryconvergent boundarydivergent boundarytransform boundarysergent boundary
- 10. Multiple ChoiceName the boundaryconvergent boundarydivergent boundarytransform boundarysergent boundary
- 11. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following is evidence that supports continental drift?the presence of penguins at both the equator and Antarcticafossils of the same plant have been found on several continentsthe presence of glacial features in Antarcticathe presence of volcanic rock in Antarctica
- 12. Multiple ChoiceLarge pieces of Earth's lithosphere that move around are called?SectionsPlatesLand MassesFaults
- 13. Multiple ChoiceWhat process is responsible for moving Earth's plates?convection currents in the outer coreconvection currents in the inner coreconvection currents in the mantleconduction currents in the lithosphere
- 14. Multiple Choice
The theory of continental drift states that all the continents were once part of one big landmass called Pangaea. Who was the scientist that came up with this theory?
Harry Hess
Bill Nye
Alfred Wegener
Albert Einstein
- 15. Multiple Choice
Seafloor Spreading occurs at a
convergent boundary
divergent boundary
transform boundary
continental boundary
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