Plate Tectonics

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What causes Earth's tectonic plates to move? Options: Energy from the Sun, Magnetic Pole Reversal, Convection currents in the mantle, Faults in Mountain Ranges

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Convection currents in the mantle

Front

What type of plate boundary is this? Options: Plate, Divergent, Convergent, Transform

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Convergent

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What geologic feature/event would you most likely to find at a divergent boundary between two pieces of oceanic crust?

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Mid-Ocean Ridge

Front

What is represented by the picture? Options: Sea-floor spreading, Pangea, How the continents are arranged today, Volcanoes

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Pangea

Front

Name the boundary: convergent boundary, divergent boundary, transform boundary, sergent boundary

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divergent boundary

Front

What is it called when two oceanic plates move apart and new crust is formed?

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sea-floor spreading

Front

Who first proposed the theory of continental drift?

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Wegener

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What evidence did Wegener use in his theory?

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all of the above

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Why did no one believe Wegener's theory?

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He could not explain HOW the continents moved

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What are the two types of crust?

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continental and oceanic