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Earth Science Open Note Quiz

Last updated over 4 years ago

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Label the direction of plate movement and convection in the asthenosphere for a divergent plate boundary. Draw arrows!

Question 19

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Label the direction of plate movement and convection in the asthenosphere for a convergent plate boundary. Draw arrows!

Question 20

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Label the direction of plate movement of a transform plate boundary. Draw arrows!

Question 21

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Explain what happens during the process of subduction in your own words.

Who first proposed the theory of continental drift?

Hess

Wilson

Pangea

Wegener

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Sea-floor spreads apart at both sides of a _____ as new crust is added.

trench

mountain

rift valley

mid-ocean ridge

Drilling samples revealed that rock samples taken farther from a mid-ocean ridge are

crystal

older

younger

hotter

What year did Wegener publish his book?

1972

1912

1812

1957

What was Wegener's theory called?

Expanding Earth

Rafting

Plate Tectonics

Continental Drift

What did Wegener's book have in it?

Evidence

Ideas

Laws

What were Wegner's 3 lines of evidence?

Weather

Climate

Animals

Fossils

Rocks

What were 2 of the fossils that Wegener used as part of his evidence?

Mesosaurus

Glossoptris

 Spinosaurus

T Rex

What 2 places did they find tropical plant fossils that are currently covered in ice?

Greenland

Iceland

Africa

Russia

Antarctica

What did Wegener find in South Africa?

Deep scratches from glaciers

Mesosaurus Fossils

Glossopteris Fossils

Fossils of tropical plants

Limestone

Rocks from South America

What kind of rock was in both North America and Scotland?

Granite

Basalt

Slate

Limestone

What did Wegener name the supercontinent?

Pangaea

Gondwanaland

Laurentia

Eurasia

What was the main reason that most scientists rejected Wegener's hypothesis?

Because he was a meterorologist

Because he didn't have enough evidence

Because he couldn't tell them how it worked 

Because he was annoying

When was this theory revisited?

1920's

1970's

1950's

2000's

What caused scientisit to revisit continental drift?

New fossils

The war

New rocks

New technology

What did sonar find on the ocean bottom?

Plains

Plateaus

Mountains

Valleys

What new technology did scientists use to map the bathymetry of the ocean floor?

Echolocation

Sonar

Radar

Magnetometer