Old Earth Ministries Online Geology Curriculum

Geology Chapter 9 Quiz

This short quiz should prepare you for the end of chapter test. It has 10 questions. You may take this quiz as many times as you like. Please proceed.

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1: The name of the most recent supercontinent is...: Gondwana
Rodinia
Pangea
Pannotia
2: Two continental plates colliding and forming a mountain range is an example of a: Divergent Plate Boundary
Convergent Plate Boundary
Transform Fault Boundary
3: The distribution of fossils is one tool used to assemble the past history of tectonic plates.: True
False
4: Core drilling is the process of using a hollow drill bit to retrieve sections of the ocean floor.: True
False
5: The earth's magnetic poles move over time. This is called...: magnetic shifting
polar wandering
polar declination
6: A divergent plate boundary is where two plates separate and move away from each other.: True
False
7: Mount Kilimanjaro is a result of a: Convergent Plate Boundary
Divergent Plate Boundary
Transform Fault Boundary
8: Gondwana was a supercontinent comprised of all of the landmasses that are now in the northern hemisphere.: True
False
9: The Himalayan Mountain range is still forming from the collision of the: Indian and Pacific plates
Indian and Australian plates
Indian and Eurasian plates
Indian and European plates
10: When plate tectonics was first proposed, most geologists rejected the idea.: True
False