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Plate Tectonics – Continental Drift, Plate Boundaries & Crustal Movements MCQs

Understand plate tectonics for CSS, PMS, CCE and PCS, including continental drift, seafloor spreading, lithospheric plates, convergent, divergent and transform boundaries, subduction, faulting, folding and related landforms. Covers major concepts behind earthquakes, volcanoes and mountain building.

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CSS - PMS - CCE - PCS - Geography Plate Tectonics
Oceanic lithosphere is recycled mainly at:
A. Subduction zones
B. Mid-ocean ridges
C. Transform faults
D. Continental interiors
Correct Answer: A
Dense oceanic plates descend into the mantle at convergent margins.
CSS - PMS - CCE - PCS - Geography Plate Tectonics
New oceanic crust is created mainly at:
A. Divergent boundaries
B. Convergent boundaries
C. Transform boundaries
D. Hot deserts
Correct Answer: A
Magma rises and solidifies where plates diverge.
CSS - PMS - CCE - PCS - Geography Plate Tectonics
Symmetrical magnetic stripes on the ocean floor support:
A. Sea-floor spreading
B. Fixity of continents
C. River erosion
D. Isostasy only
Correct Answer: A
Reversals recorded in basalt form mirror-image bands on either side of ridges.
CSS - PMS - CCE - PCS - Geography Plate Tectonics
Sea-floor spreading is most directly associated with:
A. Mid-ocean ridges
B. Ocean trenches only
C. Stable cratons
D. River deltas
Correct Answer: A
New oceanic lithosphere forms at divergent mid-ocean ridges.
CSS - PMS - CCE - PCS - Geography Plate Tectonics
Evidence for continental drift included:
A. Matching fossils and rock belts across oceans
B. Daily weather changes
C. Moon phases
D. River pollution
Correct Answer: A
Correlations across separated continents supported former connection.
CSS - PMS - CCE - PCS - Geography Plate Tectonics
Wegener's supercontinent was called:
A. Pangaea
B. Gondwana only
C. Laurasia only
D. Panthalassa
Correct Answer: A
Pangaea was the proposed late Paleozoic–early Mesozoic supercontinent.
CSS - PMS - CCE - PCS - Geography Plate Tectonics
The theory of continental drift was strongly associated with:
A. Alfred Wegener
B. Charles Darwin
C. Isaac Newton
D. James Hutton
Correct Answer: A
Wegener proposed continental drift in the early 20th century.
CSS - PMS - CCE - PCS - Geography Plate Tectonics
The asthenosphere is:
A. A relatively weak, ductile upper-mantle zone
B. The solid inner core
C. Only oceanic crust
D. The atmosphere
Correct Answer: A
Lithospheric plates move over the mechanically weaker asthenosphere.
CSS - PMS - CCE - PCS - Geography Plate Tectonics
The lithosphere consists of:
A. Crust and rigid uppermost mantle
B. Only continental crust
C. Asthenosphere and outer core
D. Mantle and inner core
Correct Answer: A
The lithosphere is the rigid outer shell comprising crust plus uppermost mantle.
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