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Plate Tectonics
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1) Who proposed the continental drift hypothesis in 1912?
A
Wegner
B
Darwin
C
Percival
D
Bellamy
2) Which of these is the thinnest?
A
Continental Crust
B
Plate
C
Lithopshere
D
Oceanic Crust
3) What drives the plate movement?
A
heat and convection
B
lava
C
conduction
D
continental drift
4) Which type of fault has motion that occurs is a sideways fashion?
A
transform
B
reverse
C
normal and reverse
D
normal
5) Which type of fault involves compression?
A
normal
B
reverse
C
normal and reverse
D
transform
6) At a convergent boundary between an oceanic plate and a continental plate, material is ___________________.
A
create
B
neither created nor destroyed
C
destroyed
D
created and destroyed
7) The San Andreas fault is an excellent example of a ______________ fault.
A
compressional
B
normal
C
transform
D
reverse
8) Which of these does NOT provide some evidence for plate tectonics?
A
the correlation of mountains, rocks, minerals, and fossils
B
the distribution of earthquakes and volcanoes
C
the formation of certain mountains
D
All of these provide evidence for plate tectonics
9) One plate goes under another in a __________________.
A
region of paleomagnetism
B
transform fault area
C
seafloor spreading zone
D
subduction zone
10) Where are some of Earth's youngest rocks found?
A
deep within the ocean trenches
B
at seafloor spreading centers
C
at convergent plate boundaries
D
high in the Himalayas
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