Exit Ticket Review Quiz 3/21

The mantle of Earth is made partly of magma. When magma rises and sinks, this is called ______________. 

• a conduction current
• a hot spot
• a volcanic eruption
• a convection current

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Name the boundary

• convergent boundary
• divergent boundary
• transform boundary
• sergent boundary

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Name the boundary

• convergent boundary
• divergent boundary
• transform boundary
• sergent boundary

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Name the boundary

• convergent boundary
• divergent boundary
• transform boundary
• sergent boundary

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Who is the person credited with developing the theory of continental drift?

• Harry Hess
• Galileo
• Alfred Wegener
• Newton

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What is this a picture of?

• plate tectonics
• continental drift
• pangea
• glacier scaring

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Of the following statements, which best supports the continental drift theory?

• All oceans are salty
• Igneous rocks are found on all continents 
• Fossils of the same species of extinct land plants have been found in both South America and Africa
• Early humans migrated to North America over a land bridge from eastern Asia

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

• Leaves and flowers

• Ice and mountains

• Plants and animals

• Dinosaurs and reptiles

The part of the earth that includes the crust and the upper mantle and is split into tectonic plates is the

• lithosphere
•  crust
• asthenosphere
• mantle

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The tectonic plates float on the 

• lithosphere
• lower mantle
• outer core
• asthenosphere

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