Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics Lesson

The longest mountain chain in the world, the mid-Atlantic ridge, was produced by which boundary?

• divergent

• allegiant

• convergent

• transform

What would you likely find at a convergent boundary between two pieces of continental crust?

• volcano

• mountains

• rift

• ridge

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In sea-floor spreading, molten material rises from the mantle and erupts

• along the edges of all the continents.

• along mid-ocean ridges.

• in deep-ocean trenches.

• at the north and south poles.

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Below is a picture of sea-floor spreading. How are the ocean crusts moving?

• Converging

• Diverging

• Sliding

• No movement

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Earth's lithospheric plates at a rate of a few _____________ every year.

• centimeters

• miles

• kilometers

• yards

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The San Andreas Fault in California is known as an active earthquake area. What type of

boundary is it?

• Converging

• Diverging

• Transform

• Sea Floor Spreading

What is the Theory of Continental Drift?

• New continents are continually being created

  and destroyed.

• The layout of the continents is the same today

  as it has always been

• The continents have always been separate but

  may one day drift together to form a single

  continent

• All the continents were once one continent that

  broke up and drifted apart over hundreds of

  millions of years

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What type of tectonic plate boundary involves a collision of plates?

• transform

• divergent

• convergent

• obstructive

What type of boundary exists when 2 plates are pulling apart?

• Convergent

• Transform

• Obtrusive

• Divergent

Which of the following is evidence that supports continental drift?

• the presence of penguins at both the equator and Antarctica

• fossils of the same plant have been found on several continents

• the presence of glacial features in Antarctica

• the presence of volcanic rock in Antarctica

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