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A rock formed from fragments of other rocks is a(n)

• Metamorphic Rock
• Sedimentary Rock
• Extrusive Rock
• Igneous Rock

If heat and pressure inside the Earth cause a rock to melt, the material that formed would be

• Metamorphic
• Magma
• Sedimentary
• Igneous

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You find a rock in which the grains are arranged in parallel bands of white and black crystals.  The rock is probably a(n)

• Igneous rock
• Sedimentary rock
• Metamorphic rock
• Extrusive rock

When minerals line up in bands within a metamorphic rock, this rock is...

• Nonfoliated
• Foliated
• Igneous
• Sedimentary

A German scientist Alfred Wegener was the first to hypothesize that ...........

• Continents were once joined
• The sea floor is spreading
• Continents are moving
• The Earth's magnetic pole flips

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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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Peer scientists reviewing Wegener’s hypothesis of continental drift rejected his notion because

• His evidence was too few to make a valid conclusion 
• He did not explain how continents move and what moves them
• His evidence was not clear in showing  how continents were joined
• He lied by including false evidence

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The rejection of Mr. Wegener's hypothesis  teaches us that

• Indirect evidence is not sufficient to prove a hypothesis
• Direct evidence is hard to find 
• Hypotheses are hard to prove
• Scientists of the early 1900s were not smart enough

The Himalayan mountains have some of the highest peaks like Mt. Everest, on which type of convergent boundary are they located?

• Oceanic/Continental
• Oceanic/Oceanic
• Continental/Continental
• None of the above

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The mechanism that moves continents is based on heat energy moving by

• Radiation in the core
• Conduction in the lithosphere
• Convection in the Asthenosphere
• None of these options is true

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