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ES Plate Tectonics Vocabulary
Test Description: Define continental drift, Pangea, seafloor spreading, plate tectonics, plates, lithosphere, asthenosphere, and convection currents
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1) What is the hypothesis that all continents were once joined in a single large continent that broke apart and slowly moved to their current locations?
A
plate tectonics
B
continental drift
C
seafloor spreading
D
Pangaea
2) What is the name of the ancient continent that was made up of all the continents joined together?
A
Laurasia
B
Pangaea
C
Gondwanaland
D
North America
3) What is the name of the theory that new seafloor is formed when magma is forced to the surface at mid-ocean ridges?
A
seafloor spreading
B
convection currents
C
plate tectonics
D
continental drift
4) What is the name of the theory that Earth\'s crust and upper mantle are broken into plates that float and move around on the asthenosphere?
A
convection currents
B
continental drift
C
seafloor spreading
D
plate tectonics
5) What is the name of a large section of Earth's crust and upper mantle that move around on the asthenosphere?
A
convection current
B
lithosphere
C
Pangaea
D
tectonic plate
6) What is the name of the rigid outer layer of Earth that consists of the crust and upper mantle?
A
convection current
B
lithosphere
C
asthenosphere
D
tectonic plate
7) What is the name of the layer of Earth on which the tectonic plates float and move around?
A
asthenosphere
B
lithosphere
C
convection currents
D
Pangaea
8) What is the name of the process in which heated fluids rise then cool and sink then become heated again and rise, and so on?
A
tectonic plates
B
lithosphere
C
asthenosphere
D
convection currents
9) What is the name of the largest layer of the Earth that has a thick, syrup-like consistancy?
A
crust
B
mantle
C
inner core
D
outer core
10) What is the name of the of the solid, outermost layer of the Earth?
A
inner core
B
crust
C
mantle
D
outer core
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