20 QUESTIONS

1. He is a German scientist who published two articles about a concept

called continental drift?
ANSWER: Alfred Wegener

2. a tectonic plate is also called?

ANSWER: lithosphere plate

3. a supercontinent also named as?

ANSWER: Pangaea

4. What are the seven major tectonic plates?

ANSWER: African, Antarctic, Eurasian, Indo-Australian, North American,
Pacific and South American

5. is an instrument that measures and records details of earthquakes,

such as force and duration
ANSWER: Seismographs.

6. Is a mark slip-sliding plate

ANSWER: Transform margins

7. In what year did Alfred Wegener publish two articles about the
continental drift?
ANSWER: 1912

8. Pangaea means?
ANSWER: “all the Earth.”
9. This theory is defined as the movement of the Earth's continents relative
to each other, thereby appearing to drift together across the oceanic bed
ANSWER: Continental Drift Theory

10. These plates lie on top of a partially molten layer of rock called?

 ANSWER: Asthenosphere

11. a scientific theory that explains how major landforms are created as a
result of Earth’s subterranean movements.
ANSWER: Tectonic plates

12. What occurs at the subduction zone when two tectonic plates push
together?
ANSWER: convergent boundary

13. Tectonic plates move due to?

ANSWER: mantle convection, subduction and slab pull

14. This fault marks the location where the North America and Pacific
plates grind past each other in a horizontal motion.
ANSWER: San Andreas fault

15. This occurs when two plates are spreading apart, as at seafloor ridges
or continental rift zones such as the East Africa Rift.
ANSWER: divergent margin

16. What rises from the Earth’s center to fill the gap?
ANSWER: Molten Rocks

17. In your own understanding what have you learned about the tectonic
plates?

18. If you we’re to give another name for Pangaea what would it be?

19. Would it have been better if the splitting of the continents/ Pangaea
hadn’t occurred? Explain why.

20. Give a brief summary on the things we have discussed about the
tectonic plates