Mastery Exam

Question 1

Massive rigid slabs

Answer 1

Continental plate

Question 2

Large rigid slabs

Answer 2

Oceanic plates

Question 3

3 types of boundaries

Answer 3

Convergent boundaries
Divergent boundaries
Transfrom boundaries

Question 4

Towards each other,
Plate tectonics collide
Formation of mountains, etc

Answer 4

Convergent boundaries

Question 5

Plates move away
Creation of new crust
Continous reshaping

Answer 5

Divergent boundaries

Question 6

Past each other horizontally and redristibute stress

Answer 6

Transfrom boundar

Question 7

Grape

Answer 7

Raisin theory

Question 8

American seismologist who proposed isostasy in 1889

Answer 8

Clarence Edward Dutton

Question 9

Great continental mass

Answer 9

Isostasy

Question 10

Greek word of tectonic mean builder or carpenter

Answer 10

Tekton

Question 11

Massive irregular slab, fragmented into dozen

Answer 11

Tectonic plates or lithospheric plates

Question 12

Constantly motion

Answer 12

Asthenosphere

Question 13

Develop and published the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum

Answer 13

Abraham ortelius

Question 14

Transfered from one place

Answer 14

Mantle convection theory

Question 15

Proposed the mantle convection theory

Answer 15

Arthur holmes

Question 16

States that gravity and the plate themselves

Answer 16

Slab pull theory

Question 17

Australian scientists

Answer 17

Edward seuss

Question 18

What year after the bigbang

Answer 18

13.77 billion years ago

Question 19

German climatologist and proposed the “continental drift theory” in his book the “the origins of continental and ocean in 1915”

Answer 19

Alfred Wegener

Question 20

All earth

Answer 20

Pangaea

Question 21

Two smaller supercontinents

Answer 21

Laurasia and gondwanaland

Question 22

Vast ocean

Answer 22

Panthalasa

Question 23

Continental drifting observed

Answer 23

Jurassic period

Question 24

Composed 58 crustal plates

Answer 24

Earth

Question 25

Tranfered from one place

Answer 25

Convection

Question 26

Technique of inverting

Answer 26

Seismology tomography

Question 27

Heavier basalt

Answer 27

Oceanic crust

Question 28

Edges of cratons

Answer 28

Continental margins

Question 29

Platforms are connected

Answer 29

Cratons

Question 30

Oldest foundation

Answer 30

Basement rock

Question 31

Solid ground

Answer 31

Continental crust

Question 32

2 mechanisms

Answer 32

Mantle convection theory and slab pull theory