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Questions for Battle Landmass!
These questions are taken from the test (and changed slightly) that I might give at the end of
Chapter 7. These of course could be modified to fit better if you were doing a unit test
instead.
1. What two things make up the lithosphere?
2. What do the plates of the lithosphere float on?
3. The hypothesis that continents have slowly moved to their current location is called
what?
4. What plate movement happens at divergent plate boundaries?
5. What plate movement happens at convergent plate boundaries?
6. What plate movement happens at transform plate boundaries?
7. What happens when molten material beneath Earth's crust rises to the surface?
8. 250 million years ago, Wegner believed that all the continents were connected to form a
supercontinent called what?
9. What kind of bands of magnetism have scientists found on the ocean floor?
10. Name a piece of evidence used to support the theory of continental drift?
11. What inside of the earth causes plate motion?
12. How do mountains form?
13. What forms when two oceanic plates collide?
14. Where is the youngest part of the ocean floor?
15. At what plate boundary do mid-ocean ridges occur?
16. What is a vast underwater mountain chain?
17. What is it called when one plate descends beneath another?
18. What is used to measure and record magnetism on the ocean floor?
19. What is earth’s plastic like layer called?
20. What new technology was used to map the seafloor beginning in the 1950’s and
1960’s?