Plate tectonics and Continental Drift

The Lithosphere is composed of the Earth's Crust and the Upper Mantle.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

True the Lithosphere is composed of the Earth's crust and the upper mantle. The Lithosphere rests on the Asthenosphere

The Lithosphere rests directly on top of the

• Asthenosphere

• Earth's Crust

• Outer Core

• Inner Core

Answer explanation

The Asthenosphere is a layer under the Lithosphere made of pliable rock material that provides the tectonic plates a surface to move on.

In 1912 Alfred Wegener introduced the _______________ Hypothesis.

• Plate Tectonics

• Convection Currents

• Continental Drift

• Big Bang Theory

Answer explanation

In 1912 Alfred Wegener proposed the Continental Drift hypothesis to explain how the continents have moved from one location to another over time.

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The Continental Drift Hypothesis is supported by the discovery of fossils of the exact same type and same time period found on different unconnected continents.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

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The ideas of continental drift and seafloor spreading were put together to create the Theory of ______, which suggest that the crust is broken into sections that move in different directions.

• Convergent boundaries

• Plate Tectonics

• Continent theory

Answer explanation

The Theory of Plate Tectonics states the continents and ocean basins are embedded in the lithospheric plates. When the plates move so do the continents.

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What type of plate boundary is pictured?

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transform

• Ripping

Answer explanation

Divergent boundaries pull apart.

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What type of plate boundary is pictured?

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transform

• Ripping

Answer explanation

Convergent collision boundaries push toward each other causing the two boundaries to collide and weld into a single larger continent. This is a Continental-Continental Convergent boundary. This type of boundary collision usually results in the formation of mountains

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What type of plate boundary is pictured?

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transform

• Ripping

Answer explanation

Convergent subduction boundaries push toward each other with on plate subducting under the other. This is a Oceanic-Continental Convergent boundary. The denser Oceanic plate will subduct forming a deep sea trench and a mountain chain and volcanoes form on the overriding continental plate.

An Oceanic-Oceanic Convergent subduction boundary will create a Deep Sea Trench and a volcanic island arc

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The Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean is 36,160 feet below sea level. This deep oceanic trench is caused by --

• excessive boat traffic disrupting the normal sedimentation process

• two Oceanic tectonic plates colliding and one plunging below the other (convergent boundary)

• Two tectonic plates sliding past each other (transform boundary)

Answer explanation

The Mariana Trench was created by an

Oceanic-Oceanic Convergent boundary

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In a Continental-Continental Convergent boundary or in an Oceanic-Continental Convergent boundary one plate sinks beneath another in the diagram, what physical feature is formed?

• Mountains

• Drumlin

• Trench

• Glacier

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