Plate Tectonics Review

What type of PLATE BOUNDARY is shown

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

• subduction

Which is a piece of evidence for the continental drift theory?

• South America and Africa have matching landforms

• Africa is Larger than South America

• The are the same shape

• There is no evidence

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What did Alfred Wegner not know at the time that would explain his theory?

• Ocean currents and wind are moving the plates

• plates move because of convection in the mantle

• plates move because of earthquakes

• his theory was wrong all along

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Describe fossil evidence that supports Wegner's theory

• Animal species have always been seperated

• Animals migrated and swam across oceans

• some specials became extinct over millions of years

• species that were once on the same contintent died and were seperated after continents moved apart

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Mountain ranges and volcanic mountain ranges are formed at

• converging boundaries

• diverging boundaries

• transform boundaries

• subduction zones

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Where do Earthquakes occur?

• only convergent boundaries

• only divergent boundaries

• At any active plate boundary

• only transform boundaries

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Volcanos are formed

• at a converging plate boundary

• in the middle of a plate

• only on land

• only in the ocean

How are rift valleys formed?

• Converging continental plates

• Diverging continental plates

• Transform plates

• diverging ocean plates

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Where is the younger crust located?

• furthest from the ocean ridge

• closest to the ocean ridge

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How were the Himalayan mountains formed?

• 2 continental plates diverging

• 2 ocean plates diverging

• 2 continental plates converging

• 1 ocean plate and 1 coninental plate converging

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