Continental drift was a hypothesis first explained by

Continental drift was a hypothesis first explained by ______________________, where he named the first supercontinent Pangaea.

Nicolas Steno

Alfred Wegener

James Hutton

Charles Darwin

•             Question 2          The process by which new oceanic seafloor is formed is called:                                 

seafloor spreading

                subduction

                convection

                orogenesis

•             Question 3          Which layer of the Earth makes up the “plates” in plate tectonics?                                           

                asthenosphere

                Moho

lithosphere

                outer core

•             Question 4          Which layer of the Earth do plates “slide” in response to?                                            

asthenosphere

                Moho

                lithosphere

                outer core

•             Question 5          The process by which oceanic crust is destroyed is known as:                                     

subduction

                seafloor spreading

                convection

                transform

•             Question 6          The geologic feature that is most often associated with a convergent plate boundary is what?                                   

                Mid Ocean Ridge

                abyssal plain

                continental shelf

trench

•             Question 7          A transform plate boundary is most commonly found:                                  

Answers:              

as offsets of the Mid Ocean Ridge

                in trenches

                in the abyssal plain

                along continental shelves

•             Question 8          Where are most volcanoes located?

along passive margins

along active margins                                      

•             Question 9          Long Island is located on which type of margin?                                

passive margin

active margin

•             Question 10        Divergent plate boundaries begin as continental rifting events.                                 

False

True

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