Plate Tectonics

What is this a picture of?

• plate tectonics
• continental drift
• pangea
• glacier scaring

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What does the theory of continental drift state?

• The continents were once joined in a super-continent and have moved over time
• Continents are stationary and do not move
• The Earth is broken into lithospheric plates that move due to convection currents
• none of the above

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What two specific continents fit together most noticeably?

• Africa and North America
• South America and Europe
• South America and Africa
• Antartica and Africa

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How long ago is Pangea believed to have existed?

• 200-300 million years ago
• 1000-2000 years ago
• 10,000-20,000 years ago
• 20-30 billion years ago

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What do you call the evidence of Continental Drift Theory that tells about the remains of an organism that lived long time ago?

• Ashes

• Bones

• Follicles

• Fossils

What are the remains of organism that are found the same in two continents?

• Leaves and flowers

• Ice and mountains

• Plants and animals

• Dinosaurs and reptiles

Which type of plate boundary would cause folded mountains to form? 

• transform
• convergent
• divergent
• subduction

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The Great Rift Valley in Africa and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge were both created by this type of plate boundary. 

• divergent
• convergent
• transform
• subduction

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What are the two types of crust?

• continental and oceanic
• ocean and basin
• lower and upper
• thick and thin

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Earthquakes and volcanoes are most likely found in which locations? 

• at plate boundaries
• in oceans
• in the middle of continents
• in the middle of plates

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