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- 1. Multiple Choice
In a tectonic plate demonstration during class, Mrs. Smith
pushes two pieces of modeling clay together. What kind of
plate boundary was the teacher demonstrating?
Convergent
Earthquake
Equator
Divergent
- 2. 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
- 3. Multiple Choice
Where does magma rise to the top to become new crust?
one plate splits into two distinct plates
one plate grinds against another plate
two plates separate and move apart from one
another.
two plates meet and collide with one another.
- 4. Multiple Choice
When crust is neither created nor destroyed, what boundary is it formed along?
convergent
divergent
collisional
transform
- 5. Multiple Choice
What type of tectonic plate boundary involves a collision of plates?
transform
divergent
convergent
obstructive
- 6. Multiple Choice
Who came up with the theory of continental drift?
Harry Hess
Albert Einstein
Alfred Wegener
Bill Nye the Science Guy
- 7. 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
- 8. 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
- 9. Multiple Choice
What was the name of the super continent that existed 250 million years ago?
Pangea
Eurasia
Wegenerland
Disneyland
- 10. 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.
- 11. Multiple Choice
Plates move away from one another at ________ boundaries.
divergent
transform
convergent
submergent
- 12. Multiple Choice
The crust and the uppermost mantle make up the _________.
lithosphere
asthenosphere
mesosphere
thermosphere
- 13. Multiple Choice
The longest mountain chain in the world, the mid-Atlantic ridge, was produced by which boundary?
divergent
allegiant
convergent
transform
- 14. Multiple Choice
What would you likely find at a convergent boundary between two pieces of continental crust?
volcano
mountains
rift
ridge
- 15. 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.
- 16. Multiple Choice
Most geologists think that the movement of Earth’s plates is caused by _______
convection.
continental drift.
subduction.
conduction.
- 17. Multiple Choice
Below is a picture of sea-floor spreading. How are the ocean crusts moving?
Converging
Diverging
Sliding
No movement
- 18. 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
- 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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