Plate Tectonics Quiz

This super continent was proposed in the Continental Drift Theory.

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Which is not an example of Wegener's evidence for continental drift: (a)  

• Volcanoe Evidence
• Fossil Evidence
• Continental Evidence
• Glacial Evidence
• Land Forms
• Rock Layers

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Put the following Earth layers in order from Youngest to Oldest.

• Mantle

• Core

• Crust

The theory of continental drift suggests that the

• continents moved due to changes in the Earth's orbital velocity

• present-day continents of South America and Africa once fit together like puzzle pieces

• continetns moved due to the Coriolis effect, caused by the Earth's rotation

• present-day continents of South American and Africa are moving toward each other

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Please label the plate tectonic diagram correctly

a

b

c

Divergent boundary

Convergent boundary

Transform boundary

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Match the following

• where crust come together. One crust is destroyed as it dives under another, known as subduction.

• Convergent

• where new crust is generated as the plates pull away or separates from each other.

• Transform

• huge broken pieces of the lithosphere.

• Tectonic Plates

• where crust is neither produced nor destroyed as the plates slide horizontally past each other.

• Divergent

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_​ (a)   Occur when tectonic plates slide past each other and form ​ (b)   and ​ Earthquakes. ​

• Transform Boundaries
• Faults
• Divergent Boundaries
• Trench
• Convergent Boundaries
• Mid Ocean Ridge
• Rift Valley

Which of the following is NOT evidence that Alfred Wegener used to support his theory?

• similar landforms on different continents separated by oceans

• shapes of continents fit together like a puzzle

• identical fossils found on continents separated by oceans

• continents continues to move each year

When two continental plates of different densities collide, -

• both plates push downward into the mantle

• both plates push upward to form mountains

• both plates remain level with each other

• the plate with the greater density sinks below the less dense plate to form a trench

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the oldest layer of rock is at the bottom, the youngest layer of rock is at the top