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