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Seafloor Spreading Quiz and Answers

The document is a quiz focused on the concept of seafloor spreading, including questions about its proponents, causes, and related geological processes. It covers topics such as the formation of oceanic crust, the age of the oldest seafloor, and the characteristics of mid-ocean ridges. The quiz consists of multiple-choice questions aimed at testing knowledge of ocean basin formation and tectonic plate interactions.

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Seafloor Spreading Quiz and Answers

The document is a quiz focused on the concept of seafloor spreading, including questions about its proponents, causes, and related geological processes. It covers topics such as the formation of oceanic crust, the age of the oldest seafloor, and the characteristics of mid-ocean ridges. The quiz consists of multiple-choice questions aimed at testing knowledge of ocean basin formation and tectonic plate interactions.

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QUIZ

1. Who proposed that seafloor is spreading?


a. Alfred Wegener
b. Alfred Williams
c. Harry Hess
d. Harry Humphrey
2. Which of the following causes seafloor spreading?
a. Earthquakes and convection
b. Magma and convection
c. Magma and subduction
d. Volcanoes and earthquakes
3. Which of the following causes seafloor spreading?
e. Earthquakes and convection
f. Magma and convection
g. Magma and subduction
h. Volcanoes and earthquakes
4. What is the age of the oldest seafloor?
a. 1.8 million years
b. 180 million years
c. 4 billion years
d. 3 billion years
5. How was new oceanic crust formed?
a. When the ocean changes in size and shape.
b. When a deep valley along the ocean floor slowly sink towards the mantle.
c. When molten material erupts through the mid ocean ridge called seafloor spreading.
[Link] molten material cool and form strip of solid rocks in the center of the ridge.
6. At mid-ocean ridges, new crust is created.
a. Volcanic
b. Continental
c. Convergent

d. Oceanic

7. Areas where continental and oceanic plates converge are also said to be

a. Mid-atlantic zones

b. Australian zones

c. Subduction zones

d. Mid- pacific zones

8. In which stage of the ocean basin formation does divrgence occur?

a. Mature and Declining

b. Embryonic and Juvenile

c. Terminal and Suturing

d. Juvenile and Matire

9. Where does the upwelling process most likely occur?

a. Abyssal plain

b. Seamounts

c. Mid-ocean ridge

d. Trenches

10. What is seafloor spreading ?

a. A thing in the ocean

b. A process that occurs at mid-ocean ridges.

c. Something in the sea

d. All of the above

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