Question Bank for Grade 8 Science

Who proposed the Continental Drift Theory?

• Harry Hess

• Alfred Wegener

• Alfred Hess

• None of the above

What is the name of the single large continent, from which the other continents were formed?

• Avatar

• Pandora

• Pangaea

• Amazon

What type of evidence was helpful in proving the Continental Drift theory?

• hidden treasures

• dinosaur fossils

• fossil evidence, continental fit, glacial evidence and landform and rock layers

• tropical forests

When did the Earth's continents stopped breaking apart and coming together?

• In 1960

• It stopped in 1950 then continued to move after 1952

• Between 1912 and 1930

• It has not stopped, it is continually breaking apart and coming together.

What were the names of the two continents that started drifting apart?

• Europe and South America

• The Netherlands and Greenland

• Laurasia and Gondwanaland

• Africa and Australia

Who proposed the Plate Tectonics Theory?

• Harry Osborn

• Harry Potter

• Harry Hess

• Harry Jones

What is the Continental Drift Theory?

• A theory that explains the weather.

• A scientific discovery made in 1960.

• A study of fossils and rocks

• The idea that Earth's continents moved apart from a single large continent called Pangaea.

What is a plate boundary?

• when two plates come together

• the second layer of earth

• ocean component

• continental drift

What are the types of plate boundaries?

• divergent, converge, transform

• divergent, oceanic, transform

• oceanic, continental, divergent

• transform, oceanic, converge

What is a convergent boundary?

• two plates that converge

• two plates that drift apart

• two plates that collide and push against each other

• two plates that slide past each other