Chapter 17 Plate Tectonics Vocabulary

What is the outer layer of the earth called?

• Inner core
• Outer core
• Crust
• Mantle

What was the name of the supercontinent?

• The world
• Pangea
• Land
• Mass continent

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Who suggested the Continental Drift theory?

• Aldrin Weiner
• Alfred Wegener
• George Williams
• Dr Drift

Earth's crust is broken up into several large rocky pieces called ...

• plates
• faults
• fossils
• puzzle pieces

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Early observers thought continents may have been joined based on what observations

• rocks and fossils
• earthquakes.
• magnetism.
• coastline

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A German scientist Alfred Wegener was the first to hypothesize that ...........

• Continents were once joined
• The sea floor is spreading
• Continents are moving
• The Earth's magnetic pole flips

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Pangaea was an ancient supercontinent made up of...

• America, Greenland, and Europe.
• Antarctica, India, and America.
• all of Earth’s continents.
• South Africa, India, Australia, and South America.

One of the fossils Wegener used to support his hypothesis of continental drift was

• Glossopteris
• Trilobite
• insects in tree amber
• ammonite molds

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What process explains the movement of Earth's plates?

• Photosynthesis

• Plate tectonics

• Gravitational pull

• Solar radiation

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What type of boundary occurs when two plates move away from each other?

• Convergent boundary

• Divergent boundary

• Transform boundary

• Static boundary