Plate Tectonics Review!

Identical rock types, identical fossils, and very similar mountain ranges are found on different continents that are separated by a wide ocean. Which of these best explains these observations

• Organisms traveled between these continents on land bridges.

• The same forces erode mountains in different locations.

• These continents were joined together at one time in the past.

• Some rock types are very common and are found everywhere.

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Which of the following best explains how lithospheric plates move across the Earth?

• Hot magma rises, shifts plates, and sinks as it cools

• Denser magma rises and carries plates as it melts

• Plates are carried by oceanic currents

• The motion of the Earth’s rotations forces plates to move

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Magnetic stripes form on the ocean floor because –

• plates have made of magnetic iron.

• Earth’s magnetic field shifts periodically.

• transform boundaries magnetize magma.

• rift zones come directly from the Earth’s core.

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Which of the following features of the ocean indicates seafloor spreading -

• abyssal plains

• rifts/mid-ocean ridges

• seamounts

• trenches

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What does Pangaea mean?

• It is the name of an ancient supercontinent.

• It is the name of an extinct volcano.

• It is the French word for volcano.

• It is a huge disruption of the Earth's atmospheric circulation.

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Which layer of the Earth is made of Nickel and Iron?

• Crust

• Mantle

• Core

• Lithosphere

This geological process is called

• Conduction

• Convection

• Conversion

• Collection

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The inner core of the Earth is solid while the outer core is liquid because of -

• Gravity

• Heat

• Romantic Relationships

• Pressure

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The plastic-like layer that the Lithospheric plates glide on is called -

• Outer Core

• Crust

• Asthenosphere

• Geosphere

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The theory that the Earth's continents have moved from their original positions to where they are now is called

• Theory of continental drift

• Theory of gravity

• Theory of evolution

• Theory of Galileo

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