Plate Tectonics

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 drives tectonic plate movement? 

• gravity
• coriolis effect
• convection currents
• the earth's magnetic core

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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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Two tectonic plates collide at a ___ plate boundary.

• convergent
• divergent
• transform
• transformer

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When an oceanic plate and a continental plate collide, which one will subduct? 

• oceanic
• continental
• neither
• both

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This land form can occur at a divergent plate boundary.

• trench
• mid-ocean ridge
• folded mountains
• fault

According to Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift, 

• Earth's surface is made up of seven major landmasses
• the continents DO NOT move
• Earth is slowly cooling and shrinking
• the continents were once joined together in a single landmass

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What is Pangaea?

• the name of a German scientist
• the name of the super-continent that existed millions of years ago
• another name for continental drift
• the name of an ancient fossil

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What type of evidence was NOT used by Alfred Wegener to support his continental drift hypothesis?

• evidence from landforms
• evidence from fossils
• evidence from human remains
• evidence from climate

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