Plate Tectonics

The Hawaiian islands were formed

• at a divergent plate boundary

• at a hot spot

• at a convergent plate boundary

• at a transform fault

• at a mid-ocean ridge

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Earthquake epicenters are often at

• divergent boundaries

• convergent boundaries

• transform boundaries

• hot spots

• subduction zones

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Subduction

• is the reason similar fossils appear on both sides of the Atlantic

• is the result of a hot spot moving near a plate boundary

• occurs when one plate passes under another

• occurs when oceanic plates diverge and form volcanoes

• is the process in transform boundaries that results in earthquakes

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What evidence did Alfred Wegener use to form his Pangaea hypothesis?

• identical rock formations found on both sides of the Atlantic

• fossils of the same species collected from different continents

• the jigsaw puzzle fit of the different continents

• all of the above

Mountains typically form at

• the collusion zone of two continental plates

• the collusion zone of a continental plate and an oceanic plate

• the divergent zone of two oceanic plates

• the divergent zone of two continental plates

• a transform fault boundary

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