quiz #2

Question 1

What is the name of the original Super Continent?

Answer 1

Pangea

Question 2

What is Radiation?

Answer 2

Airborne heat transfer.

Question 3

Divergent Boundaries

Answer 3

When two plates separate and create rifts

Question 4

What is Conduction?

Answer 4

Heat transfer through contact.

Question 5

What are continental plates made of?

Answer 5

Granite

Question 6

What is an example of a Transformation boundary?

Answer 6

San Andreas fault

Question 7

What do each of the letters stand for?

Answer 7

a. Oceanic Crust
b. Deep Ocean Trench
c. Continental Crust
d. Lithosphere
e. Asthenosphere

Question 8

What causes Plate Tectonics?

Answer 8

Convection Currents in the Mantle.

Question 9

What is the difference between a pace and a step?

Answer 9

A pace is two steps.

Question 10

What two things cause volcanoes?

Answer 10

Subduction and Hot Spots

Question 11

What are oceanic plates made of?

Answer 11

Basalt

Question 12

What are the 3 types of heat transfer?

Answer 12

Convection, Radiation, Conduction

Question 13

What is an example of a Divergent boundary?

Answer 13

The Mid Atlantic Rift

Question 14

What is Convection?

Answer 14

Heat transfer through the movement of liquid(How plate tectonics work).

Question 15

What were the three different types of evidence that Wegner had of his theory of “Continental Drift?”

Answer 15

Puzzle Pieces (How parts of continents seemed to fit together), Fossils (Identical species of dinosaurs were found seas apart), and Climate (Glacier tracks end on the edge of South America and continue on Africa, another example is a mountain range, rich with coal simply stops on the edge of America and they found the same exact type of coal on the edge of Europe facing the U.S.

Question 16

Transform Boundries

Answer 16

When two plates slide back and forth next to each other

Question 17

What does S.T.O.P stand for?

Answer 17

Stop, think, observe, And Plan

Question 18

What is an example of a Convergent boundary?

Answer 18

The Himalayas(C. vs C.), The Mariana Trench(O. vs O.)

Question 19

What are the layers of the Earth?

Answer 19

Crust, Lithosphere, Asthenosphere, Mesosphere, Outer core, Inner core

Question 20

What is the name of the Super Ocean

Answer 20

Panthalasa

Question 21

What did Hess find when he went to The Mid Atlantic Ridge?

Answer 21

He found that as you went farther and farther from the ridge the rocks got older and older and that every so many hundred feet the magnetic polarity switched, this means that at some point North will become South and South will become North. He also found that The Atlantic Ocean is growing ever so slowly.