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