"Land Beneath Our Feet" Review

Where do most volcanoes occur?

• At the plate boundary.

• In oceanic plates only.

• In the middle of continental plates.

• On the moon.

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What causes rift valleys?

• Transform Boundaries

• Convergent Boundaries

• Divergent Boundaries

• Volcanic activity

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Transform Boundaries primarily cause...

• Deltas

• Earthquakes

• Trenches

• Mid-Ocean Ridges

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Boundaries that move apart are called ...

• Lithosphere

• Convergent

• Transform

• Divergent

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Boundaries that collide, or come together, are known as ...

• Divergent

• Transform

• Convergent

• Plate Tectonics

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Why was Alfred Wegener's theory of Continental Drift not accepted at first?

• It was accepted.

• He was wrong.

• Who is Alfred Wegener?

• He couldn't tell how the plates moved

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What is subduction?

• When denser crust sinks beneath less dense crust.

• When less dense crust sinks beneath denser crust.

• When tectonic plates move in opposite directions.

• None of these

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Which of the following is evidence for the Continental Drift theory?

• South America and Africa seem to fit together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle.

• Landforms- different rocks and mountain ranges.

• Fossils-plants and animals found on different continents.

• All of these

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Where do convection currents occur? What do they cause?

• Mantle; density

• Crust; movement of tectonic plates

• Mantle; movement of tectonic plates

• Crust; density

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How does density relate to the position of the layers of the earth?

• It doesn't.

• The densest layer is farthest from the center of the earth.

• The layers have different materials but the same densities.

• The densest layer is the center of the earth.