The theory of continental drift’ ws presented by Alfred Wagener in ________ .
A.1715
B.1815
C.1915
D.None of these
Category: Tectonic Plates
An extension of Juan de Fuca plate in the South is _______ .
A.Gorda
B.Scotia
C.Cocos plate
D.None of these
Sea floor spreading results from ________ .
A.Convergence
B.Lateral displacement
C.Divergence
D.None of these
The Australian Indian plate meets the pacific plate in _______ .
A.New Guinea
B.New Zealand
C.East Timore
D.None of these
Eurasia and North America are the remnants of _________.
A.Pangaea
B.Laurasia
C.Gondwana
D.None of these
A major system of rift valleys occurs in _________ .
A.Eastern Africa
B.Australia
C.North America
D.Eastern Europe
North American plate meets _____ along California’s San Andreas fault _____ plate.
A.Nazca
B.Caribbean
C.Pacific
D.None of these
When due to tensional forces simatic crust below and sialic crust above are pulled apart _____ is formed
A.Volcano
B.Mountain
C.Ridge
D.Rift Valley
The tiny _______ plate will eventually disappear by subduction beneath American plate.
A.Nazca
B.Scotia
C.Juan de Fuca
D.None of these
_______ in 1939 proposed that movement of land mass is due to heat-sustained convection cells.
A.Arthur Homes
B.Taylor
C.A-Ortelius
D.Benjamin Franklin
