DISTRIBUTION OF OCEANS AND CONTINENTS

 DISTRIBUTION OF OCEANS AND CONTINENTS 

(Minimum Learning Level )MLL

1-Name the upper most layer of the earth.

2-What is the radius of the earth?

3-What was Pangaea?

4-Who first propounded the theory of continental drift?

5-What is polar wandering?

6-What process is known as subduction?

7-What do you mean by jig –saw-fit?

8-What do you mean by oceanic ridge?

9-What is meant by Pangaea?

HOTs Questions

1-With the help of a diagram explain various features of the  sea floor?

2-How does coral distribution suggest northward movement of continents?

3-How do lithosphere plates behave along the transform fault?

 4-Describe the continental drift theory of Wegner  in detail.

5-Boundaries of the tectonic plates are more important than plates. Explain this statement.

6-What are the evidences in support of the continental drift theory?

(03 marks question)

1-What is meant by sea floor spreading?

2-What do you understand by plate tectonic?

3-What do you mean by tillite? Where are they found?

4-How are the convectional currents in the mantle initiated and maintained?

5-Draw the major tectonic plates on the given map of the world.

6-What is the relationship between earthquake, volcanoes and plate tectonics?

7-What was the location of Indian plate in various periods?

8-How far the tectonic plate’s theory is able to explain the origin of mid oceanic ridge?

9-What is the importance of tectonic plate’s theory in geomorphology?