- 1. Which ocean basin is still opening and widening today due to plate movement?
A) Arctic Ocean
B) Indian Ocean
C) Pacific Ocean
D) Atlantic Ocean
- 2. Which mountain range is a result of the collision of the Indian Plate with the Eurasian Plate?
A) Alps
B) Himalayas
C) Rockies
D) Andes
- 3. Which continent is believed to have split from Gondwana and moved to its current position in the Northern Hemisphere?
A) Africa
B) North America
C) Antarctica
D) Australia
- 4. The separation of South America and Africa is primarily attributed to which type of plate boundary?
A) Convergent boundary
B) Divergent boundary
C) Transform boundary
D) Hotspot activity
- 5. What is the process by which oceanic lithosphere descends beneath continental lithosphere at a convergent boundary?
A) Rifting
B) Subduction
C) Divergence
D) Convection
- 6. The movement of the Pacific Plate over a hotspot created which island chain in the Pacific Ocean?
A) Fiji Islands
B) Hawaiian Islands
C) Galapagos Islands
D) Philippine Islands
- 7. What is the mechanism through which new oceanic crust is formed at mid-ocean ridges?
A) Territorial extension
B) Crustal convergence
C) Seafloor spreading
D) Plate collision
- 8. Which continent was once connected to North America and is now separated by the Atlantic Ocean?
A) Australia
B) Asia
C) Africa
D) Europe
- 9. The collision of the Australian Plate with the Pacific Plate led to the formation of which mountain range in New Zealand?
A) Andes
B) Rockies
C) Himalayas
D) Southern Alps
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