QUIZ

1. What does Wegener called the single supercontinent?

* Pangaea

2. Give at least one evidence Wegener used to support his Continental Drift Theory.

(Any of the three)

*Close fit of continental coastlines and landforms
*Fossils
*Climate

3. What causes the plastic asthenosphere to flow and makes the Earth's lithosphere to move?

*Thermal Convection Current

4-6. Give at least 3 present continents.

(Any 3 of the following)

* North America
* South America
* Africa* Europe
* Antarctica
* Asia
* Australia

7. It is a type of Plate Boundary where two plates are moving towards one another.

a.) Divergent Boundaries

b.) Convergent Boundaries
c.) Transform Boundaries
d.) Compressional Plate Boundaries

*B. Convergent Boundaries

8.  It is a tectonic force acting parallel to a surface but crusts are moving in opposite directions.

a.) Compressional Tectonic Forces

b.) Tensional Tectonic Forces
c.) Shearing Tectonic Forces

*C. Shearing Tectonic Forces

9. It is a type of reverse fault with a dip of 45° or less.

a.) Normal Fault

b.) Thrust Fault
c.) Over thrust Fault
d.) Strike-Slip Fault

*B. Thrust Fault

10.  A fold that bents downward.

a.) Synclines
b.) Anticlines
c.) Monocline

* A. Synclines

11.  It is a type of fault that is a result from a shear tectonic force.

a.) Normal Fault

b.) Thrust Fault
c.) Over thrust Fault
d.) Strike-Slip Fault

* D. Strike-Slip Fault

12. Alfred Wegener is a German _________ who proposed the theory of continental drift in
around 1900s.

a.) Geologist
b.) Earth Scientist
c.) Climatologist
d.) Palaeontologist

* C. Climatologist

13. A dating method that does not provide actual numerical dates of the rocks, instead, puts
geologic events in time order.

* Relative Dating Method

14. It is a process where the atoms of some chemical elements or isotopes are broken down to
produce a more stable radioactive isotopes.

* Radioactive Decay

15. What is the daughter isotope of Carbon-14 (C-14)?

* Nitrogen-14

16. What is the method used to give rocks an actual date, or date range, in numbers of years.

* Absolute Dating

17. The principle that states that strata containing the group of fossils of plants or animals are
also formed according to the particular period of time they appeared.

* Faunal Succession

18. It is a principle of Relative Dating that states that the rocks that got mixed up in the formation
of sediments (intrusion) are always older than the layer of sediments it is embedded.

* Law of Inclusion

19. A process by which sediments settle in a certain place after being eroded.

* Deposition

20. The process by which the deposited sediments begin to stick to one another, and get
cemented together.

* Compaction