APES Unit 4

Pangaea was an ancient supercontinent made up of...

• America, Greenland, and Europe.
• Antarctica, India, and America.
• all of Earth’s continents.
• South Africa, India, Australia, and South America.

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The type of plate boundary where two plates come together is a .....

• Convergent Boundary

• Divergent Boundary

• Transform Boundary

• Plate Boundary

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Which of the following causes Earth's tectonic plates to move?

• Energy from the Sun

• Magnetic Pole Reversal

• Convection currents in the mantle

• Faults in Mountain Ranges

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What type of event will occur at this boundary?

• Earthquake

• Volcano Eruption

• Tornado

• Mountain Building

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A divergent boundary occurs when plates ....

• Pull apart

• Come together

• Slide past each other

• subducting

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Mountains are created when....

• Two continental plates collide

• Two oceanic plates pull apart

• An Oceanic plate subducts under a Continental Plate

• Two continental plates pull apart

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The youngest rocks on the seafloor are most likely found...

• closest to a mid-ocean ridge

• farthest from a mid-ocean ridge

• near the coastlines

• closest to a deep sea trench

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Rising magma that results from subduction may produce...

• fossil layers

• volcanic island arcs

• deep-sea sediment

• seafloor spreading

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The Andes Mountains are a volcanic mountain range located on the western coast of South America. The plate boundary located in this region is most likely an area of-

• subduction because the plates are colliding
• folded mountains because the plates are colliding
• mid-ocean ridges because the plates are pulling apart
• ocean-floor spreading because the plates are spreading apart

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The San Andreas Fault is a crack in the Earth's crust that runs the length of California. What plate boundary feature caused this?

• an inactive convergent boundary
• an active convergent boundary
• an active transform boundary
• a volcanic eruption

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