Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics Lesson

The theory of continental drift states that all the continents were once part of one big landmass called Pangaea. Who was the scientist that came up with this theory?

• Harry Hess

• Bill Nye

• Alfred Wegener

• Albert Einstein

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Rift Valley is a feature of what plate boundary?

• Obtrusive

• Divergent

• Transform

• Convergent

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When two convergent plates come together where the denser one is forced under back into the mantle

• reduction

• conduction

• subduction

• convection

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What forms when two continental, convergent plates push together?

• volcano

• mountain

• earthquakes

• island

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Wegener's evidence supports his theory of a super continent that he named?

• Ultima

• Pangaea

• Plate Tectonics

• Continental Drift

Name the boundary

• convergent boundary

• divergent boundary

• transform boundary

• sergent boundary

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Name the boundary

• convergent boundary

• divergent boundary

• transform boundary

• sergent boundary

Seafloor Spreading occurs at a

• convergent boundary

• divergent boundary

• transform boundary

• continental boundary

Which of the following evidence was used to support theory of continental drift?

• Continents fit together like a puzzle

• Similar fossils were found on separate continents

• Different types of rock, mountain structures, landforms are found all over the world.

• All of the above

• Only A and B

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If you took rock samples from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, the youngest rock would be

• located where the plates collide

• located at the place where rocks are furthest from the rift valley

• Located at the center of the ridge (rift valley), where oceanic crust is formed

• none of the above; all the rocks would be the same age

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