Module 02 Concept Check: (Fall 2023) GOL 105 (E81A) - Physical Geology
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Module 02 Concept Check: (Fall 2023) GOL 105 (E81A) - Physical Geology
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Question 1
Choose evidence used by Wegener to support his Continental Drift
hypothesis. Choose all that apply. .
Evidence of paleomagnetism
Evidence of glaciation in areas currently nowhere near polar regions
Correct!
Correct!
Fossils of identical land animals and plants discovered on widely
separated continental land masses
Correct!
Correct!
Evidence of seafloor spreading
Similarities in rock types and structures found on widely separated
continents
Correct!
Correct!
The age of the seafloor sediments determined from fossils
Continuation of mountain systems found now on separate continental
land masses
Correct!
Correct!
Correct!
Correct!
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Evidence of tropical equatorial conditions including vast coal deposits in
a swath across the central Pangaean continent.
Evidence from hot-spot tracks
1 / 1 pts
Question 2
Tensional stress is associated with what type of plate movement?
divergence
Correct!
Correct!
convergence
transform
collision
1 / 1 pts
Question 3
The final stage in the formation of the Himalayan Mountains was
caused by
oceanic-continental plate collision
continental-continental plate collision
Correct!
Correct!
oceanic-oceanic plate divergence
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continental-continental plate divergence
1 / 1 pts
Question 4
The Andes Mountains of South America are an example of mountain
building activity at which type of plate boundary?
oceanic-continental convergent plate boundary
Correct!
Correct!
continental-continental convergent plate boundary
oceanic-oceanic convergent plate boundary
divergent plate boundary
1 / 1 pts
Question 5
What is the mechanism that drives the movement of tectonic plates?
Movement along transform boundaries.
Mantle plumes that form volcanic island chains.
A little man at the steering wheel of the mid-Atlantic Ridge.
Convection in the mantle.
Correct!
Correct!
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1 / 1 pts
Question 6
The Appalachian Mountains were formed through mountain building
processes associated with which type of plate boundary?
oceanic-continental plate collision
continental-continental plate collision
Correct!
Correct!
oceanic-oceanic plate divergence
continental-continental plate divergence
Quiz Score:
10
out of 10