Geology Quiz

What is the term for the movement of continents over time?

• Hypothesis

• Continental drift

• Fault

• Subduction

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Which process involves the ocean floor spreading apart?

• Seafloor spreading

• Constraints

• Criteria

• Fault

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What is the term for the sinking of one tectonic plate beneath another?

• Hypothesis

• Subduction

• Scientific theory

• Continental drift

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What is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon, based on limited evidence?

• Fault

• Hypothesis

• Subduction

• Plate tectonics

What did the computer-generated image reveal about Earth?

• The surface of Earth, including both the continents and the seafloor.

• Only the continents of Earth.

• Only the oceans of Earth.

• The atmosphere of Earth.

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What did scientists discover about the underwater mountain chain?

• It encircles the globe.

• It is only found in the Atlantic Ocean.

• It is smaller than expected.

• It is made entirely of sand.

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What did Abraham Ortelius notice about the continents surrounding the Atlantic Ocean?

• They looked like they might fit together like pieces of a puzzle.

• They were all the same size.

• They were moving towards each other.

• They were all covered in ice.

What did Ortelius propose about the Americas?

• They had been torn apart from Europe and Africa by earthquakes and floods.

• They were always in their current location.

• They were formed by volcanic activity.

• They were created by meteor impacts.

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What was the name of the supercontinent that Alfred Wegener proposed?

• Gondwana

• Laurasia

• Pangaea

• Atlantis

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Who reintroduced the explanation for the fit of the continents in 1912?

• Ortelius

• Alfred Wegener

• Charles Darwin

• Isaac Newton

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