|
Some online Plate tectonics multiple choice questions to try – Here you can check your answers. (Note some of the questions we may not have covered but you should be able to do most of them.)
Question set 1.
Question set 2.
- Alfred Wegener’s Theory was called _______________
- About ______________ million years the supercontinent of Pangaea began to split.
- It formed a northern land known as ___________ and a southern land of which Australia was a part known as __________________.
- After World War II the technique of sonar was used to map the _______________.
- This led to the discovery of _____________________.
- After this time the theory of ___________________________ was proposed.
- Finally in the late 1960s and early 1970s the Theory of ____________ Tectonics was proposed.
- The brittle outer layer of the crust is considered to be composed of 6 major __________.
- Name these 6 major plates.
- What happens when two plates carrying continental crust collide? Give an example.
- What happens when two plates carrying oceanic crust collide? Give an example.
- What happens when a plate carrying continental crust collides with a plate carrying oceanic crust? Give an example.
- What happens when plates slide past each other?
-
Identify the following plate boundary and label the diagram including – Oceanic plate, Continental plate, Volcanic activity, Mountain building, Zone of subduction, Deep foci earthquakes, Convection currents. 
- Relatively gentle lava flow eruptions usually occur where crustal plates ______________
- What evidence do we have that eastern Australia was once at a plate margin?.
- What evidence would we look for to determine whether another planet had active convection currents within the mantle?
- Cite some other evidence that supports the theory of placte tectonics.
|
