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1
135 million years ago, when the supercontinent was breaking apart, the northern supercontinent was called:
A)Pangaea.
B)Gondwana.
C)Glossopteris.
D)Laurasia
2
The sliding of seafloor beneath a continent or island arc is known as:
A)obliteration.
B)subduction.
C)obduction.
D)obfuscation.
3
The tectonic plates are part of Earth's:
A)asthenosphere.
B)lithosphere.
C)mantle.
D)crust.
4
The Vine-Matthews hypothesis explains the origin of:
A)plate tectonics.
B)continental drift.
C)seafloor magnetic anomalies.
D)polar wandering.
5
Alfred Wegener named the most recent southern supercontinent:
A)Gondwanaland.
B)Glossopteris.
C)Laurentia
D)Pangaea.
6
Which of the following features would you expect to find at an ocean-ocean convergent boundary?
A)a transform fault.
B)a rift.
C)shield volcanoes (like Hawaii).
D)none of these.
7
Which of the following features would you expect to find at an ocean-continent convergent boundary?
A)earthquakes
B)deep ocean trench
C)volcanic mountain chain
D)all of these
8
Which of the following would you expect to find at a continent-continent convergent boundary?
A)deep ocean trench
B)volcanic mountain chain
C)suture zone
D)all of these
9
Passive continental margins are created by:
A)transform motion.
B)divergence.
C)convergence.
D)all of these
10
The Hawaiian Islands are the result of:
A)ocean-ocean convergent plate motion.
B)a mantle plume.
C)subduction.
D)divergent plate motion.
11
Metallic ores are created at divergent plate boundaries:
A)in lava flows.
B)in sedimentary deposits.
C)through hydrothermal processes.
D)all of these
12
A large supercontinent that existed 225 million years ago was:
A)Pangaea.
B)Gondwanaland.
C)Laurasia.
D)Glossopteris
13
Which of the following was not used by Wegener as evidence of continental drift?
A)magnetic anomalies on the seafloor
B)the geometric fit of the continents
C)evidence of glaciation on widely separated continents
D)fossils that were common to many continents
14
Continental drift and the reorganization of this hypothesis to plate tectonics was made possible by advances in:
A)development of radiometric dating methods.
B)understanding of Earth's magnetic field.
C)understanding of Earth's fossil record.
D)none of these
15
An early hypothesis that eventually led to the theory of plate tectonics was:
A)The elastic rebound theory of G.K. Gilbert in the early 1900's.
B)Seafloor spreading by Harry Hess, 1962.
C)"Theory of the Earth" by James Hutton, 1788.
D)all of these
16
The age of the seafloor is relatively young because:
A)it is continuously destroyed at subduction zones.
B)it is continuously generated at mid-ocean ridges.
C)both of the above
D)none of the above
17
If a plate moves 20 mm per year, how far will it move in 1 million years?
A)2,000 kilometers
B)20 centimeters
C)20 kilometers
D)20 meters
18
The East African Rift is an example of:
A)a divergent plate boundary.
B)an ocean-ocean convergent boundary.
C)an ocean-continent convergent boundary.
D)a continent-continent convergent boundary.
19
Which of the following provides evidence of plate motion?
A)offset of rocks along the San Andreas fault
B)the age distribution of basalt at mid-ocean ridges
C)the age distribution of the Hawaiian Islands
D)all of these
20
The sea-floor spreading rates are estimated to be:
A)0.1 to 1 centimeter/year
B)100 to 1000 centimeter/year
C)1 to 24 centimeter/year
D)10 to 100 meter/year





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