Plate Tectonics & Pangaea

Tectonic plates:

• can move towards each other.
• can move away from each other.
• can slide past each other.
• All of the above.

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What causes the movement of tectonic plates?

• ocean currents

• Earth's magnetic field

• uneven heating of Earth's asthenosphere called convection

• uneven heating by Earth's inner core

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What types of evidence are used to help prove the Theory of Continental Drift?

• landform
• geologic
• fossil
• all of the above

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Matching rocks and minerals on separate continents is a form of:

• landform evidence
• geologic evidence
• fossil evidence
• all of the above

What does the Continental Drift Theory explain?

• How Earth was formed

• How continental crust is formed.

• How water moves continents across the globe.

• The movement of tectonic plates and continents.

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What was the supercontinent that once was formed on Earth?

• Laurasia

• Gondwana

• Pangaea

• Eurasia

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How long did it take for the continents go from Pangaea to their present position?

• hundreds of years

• thousands of years

• almost a million years

• hundreds of millions of years

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What boundary do ocean ridges most often form?

• At a divergent boundary.

• At a convergent boundary

• At a transform boundary.

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What happens at a convergent boundary?

• Two plates move towards each other.

• Two plates move away from each other.

• Two plates slide past each other.

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What happens at a divergent boundary?

• Two plates move towards each other?

• Two plates move away from each other

• Two plates slide up against each other.

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