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Plate Tectonics
Test Description: Plate tectonics
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) Which piece of evidence does NOT support the Continental Drift Theory?
A
Pottery found on both coast lines
B
Africa and South America fit together like a puzzle
C
Folded mountains occurred at both coast lines of South AMerica and Africa
D
The same fossils were found along the west coast of South America and the east coast of Africa.
2) What is the name of the continents when they were one land mass?
A
Kitandkaboodle
B
Lurasia
C
Gondwannaland
D
Pangea
3) The heat from the core rise to the top of the crust and causes the plates to move. What movement inside the earth causes the plates to move?
A
Radiation
B
Conduction Current
C
Divergent Boundary
D
Convection Current
4) What type of boundary do you have when the ocean floor dives under the continental plate?
A
volcanos
B
transform
C
divergent
D
subduction, which is a type of convergent boundary.
5) Where oceanic and continental plate collide, what type of landform can be found?
A
mid-ocean ridge
B
deltas
C
rivers
D
volcano
6) The top layer of the earth is called the
A
Mantle
B
Core
C
Lithosphere
D
Asthenosphere
7) What is the idea behind the Continental Drift Theory?
A
The continents were at one time one land mass and the continents slowly drifted apart
B
The earth creates new rock and melts the old rock
C
Convection currents in the earth move the plates
D
The ice age caused the continents to separate
8) What is the idea behind Sea floor spreading?
A
Mountain ranges are created
B
The ice age caused the continents to start moving
C
The continents were at one time one land mass and over time slowly drifted apart
D
Convection currents in the earth move the plates
9) If the plates are moving towards each other, what type of boundary do you have?
A
Convergent
B
Transform
C
Divergent
D
Lithosphere
10) What type of boundary do you have when the plates are moving away from each other?
A
Convergent
B
Divergent
C
Subduction
D
Transform
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