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Seafloor Spreading
Test Description: Seafloors Spreading
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1) What is Sea-Floor Spreading?
A
Subduction zones continually add new material to the ocean floor.
B
Mid-Ocean ridges continually add new material to the ocean floor
C
A thing in the Ocean
2) Mid-Ocean ridges form long chains of ______ that rise up from the ocean floor.
A
Rivers
B
Valleys
C
Mountains
3) In the Mid-1900s, scientists mapped mid-ocean ridges using what?
A
Satillites
B
Sonar
C
x rays
4) What is Subduction?
A
The process by wich new ocean floor is created.
B
The cycling of magma material in the mantel
C
The process by which the ocean floor sinks beneath a deep ocean trench and back into the mantle again.
5) Who came up with the theory of Seafloor Spreading?
A
Hess
B
Wilson
C
Wegener
D
Tharp
6) Who mapped the mid-ocean ridge?
A
Hess
B
Wegener
C
Tharp
D
Wilson
7) Where are the yongest rocks on the ocean floor located?
A
Near the subduction zones
B
Near the mid ocean ridge
8) What type of plate boundary is located at the mid-ocean ridge?
A
Convergent
B
Transform
C
Divergent
9) What type of plate boundary is located at subduction zone?
A
Divergent
B
Convergent
C
Transform
10) What is the name of the research vessel that helped prove continental drift and seafloor spreading?
A
Grogu
B
Glomar Challenger
C
Glomarantic
D
Glossipteris
11) Which of the following is NOT a piece of evidence that supports seafloor spreading?
A
Age of the rocks on the ocean floor
B
Magnetic Reversals (Polarity)
C
Puzzle Like fit of the continents
D
Mid Ocean Ridge
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