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____1. What evidence did Wegener have for his theory of continental drift?
A. He had no evidence.
B. He knew that plant and animal fossils, as well as rock layers, matched on the two continents of Africa and
South America.
C. He explained how continents moved apart.
____7. The oldest crust (rocks) are found _________ the mid-ocean ridge.
A. farthest B. nearest C. along D. away
____8. The youngest crust( rocks) are found _________ the mid-ocean ridge.
A. farthest B. nearest C. along D. away
____9. What evidences do scientists use to support the continental drift theory?
A. rocks, fossils, air C. rocks, water, ice
B. rocks, fossils, climate D. rocks, fossils, human beings
____14. This process of old crust being pulled down and remelted is called:
A. sea floor spreading B. drifting C. plate tectonics D. subduction
____15. The evidence that rocks closer to mid ocean ridges are younger than rocks farther away
supports the theory of:
A. sea floor spreading B. subduction C. plate tectonics D. Big Bang theory
____16. The theory of plate tectonics combine which two other theories?
A. sea floor spreading and continental drift C. continental drift and fossil theory
B. sea floor spreading and tidal theory D. continental drift and Big Bang theory
____17. Large pieces of the lithosphere that float on the asthenosphere are called:
A. asthenosphere B. the mid-ocean ridge C. deep-sea trenches D. tectonic plates
____19. A boundary where plates move away from each other is called:
A. divergent B. convergent C. transform D. shear boundary
____24. What kind of plate boundary results to the formation of an Island arc?
A. divergent boundary B. transform or shear boundary C. convergent boundary
____25. What kind of plate boundary results to the formation of most volcanoes?
A. convergent boundary B. divergent boundary C. transform or shear boundary
____26. What kind of plate boundary causes old and heavy crust ( rocks ) to sink into the mantle ( subduction)?
A. convergent boundary B. divergent boundary C. transform or shear boundary
____27. What kind of plate boundary results to the formation of a mountain range like the Himalayas
and the Appalachian mountains?
A. divergent boundary B. transform or shear boundary C. convergent boundary
____28. What kind of plate boundary results to the formation of a trench like the Marianas trench?
A. convergent boundary B. divergent boundary C. transform or shear boundary
____29. What kind of plate boundary results to the formation of a fault line like the
San Andreas fault in California?
A. divergent boundary B. transform or shear boundary C. convergent boundary
____30. What kind of plate boundary causes sea floor spreading like the one causing the
Atlantic Ocean to widen?
A. convergent boundary B. divergent boundary C. transform or shear boundary
Week 7 Quiz: Plate Tectonics KEY
1. B
2. A
3. C
4. C
5. B
6. C
7. A
8. B
9. B
10. B
11. A
12. B
13. C
14. D
15. A
16. A
17. D
18. D
19. A
20. A
21. D
22. B
23. C
24. C
25. A
26. A
27. C
28. A
29. B
30. B