Quiz on Plate Tectonics, Volcanoes, and Earthquakes

A scientist who examines rocks to find out about Earth's history and structure.

• Botanist

• Geologist

• Neurologist

• Paleontologist

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Alfred Wegner noticed that the continents looked like what?

• Jigsaw puzzle pieces

• Popcorn

• Cloud animals

• Coloring book pictures

What is Alfred Wegner's idea that the Earth's continents were all joined together?

• Theory of Evolution

• Theory of Gravitational Pull

• Theory of Continental Drift

• Theory of Spontaneous Creation

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Alfred Wegner found remains of a once-living thing on the continents of Africa and South America. What are these called?

• Pictographs

• Geodes

• Minerals

• Fossils

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What was the name of the supercontinent that included all modern day continents connected as one?

• Africanus

• Pangaea

• Americolius

• Tethysia

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The theory that explains how forces deep within the Earth can cause ocean floors to spread and continents to move.

• Plate Tectonics

• Magnetism

• Relativity

• Gravity

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Hot, melted rock under the surface of the Earth that is pushed from the mantle towards the surface of the Earth and which stretches the plates apart due to tension.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The Himilayas is an example of this type of mountain chain that is produced by compression, or when the ground is forced upward.

• Folded Mountains

• Fault Block Mountains

The Sierra Nevada mountains is an example of this type of mountain chain that is produced by shear, or a force that twists, tears, or pushes part of the crust past another.

• Folded Mountains

• Fault Block Mountains

Deep cracks in the Earth's crust are called what?

• Crustaceans

• Faults

• Craters

• Mountains