Plate Tectonics

What forms at the divergent boundary? 

• deep-ocean trench
• mid-ocean Ridge
• land ridge
• the Pacific Ocean

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Which of the following supports the theory of seafloor spreading?

• Correlation of rock layers
• Crustal Age
• Magnetic Reversal
• Continuous Mountain Chains

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What causes the crust to move?

• convection
• conduction
• tension
• radiation

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The entire cycle of heating occurring in the mantle is called

• Convection currents
• Compound currents
• heat currents
•  subcurrents

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When looking at mid ocean ridges the oldest rocks are 

• In the middle
• Found close to the rift zone
• Found far from the mid ocean ridges

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What 3 kinds of evidence were used to prove that the seafloor spread?

• Rock formations, age of rocks, WWII shipwrecks

• Age of rocks, magnetic seafloor stripes, WWII ship logs

• Rock formations, magnetic seafloor stripes, age of rocks

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What technology was used during WWII to detect enemy submarines and produce the first map of the seafloor?

• Sonar
• Radar
• GPS

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Process by which new ocean crust forms.

• Seafloor spreading

• Continental drift

• Mid-ocean ridge

• Rift

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Magnetic field that points south.

• Modern polarity
• Past polarity
• Normal polarity
• Reversed polarity

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Why were magnetic patterns found on the ocean floor puzzling?

• They showed alternating bands of normal and reversed polarity.
• No rocks were magnetic.
• They did not show alternating bands of normal and reversed polarity.
• All rocks were magnetic.

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