Plate Tectonics

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 plate boundary is this?

• Plate
• Divergent
• Convergent
• Transform

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What geologic feature/event would you most likely to find at a divergent boundary between two pieces of oceanic crust?

• Rift Valley
• Mid-Ocean Ridge
• Island Arc
• Flat land

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What is represented by the picture? 

• Sea-floor spreading
• Pangea
• How the continents are arranged today
• Volcanoes

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Name the boundary

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

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What is it called when two oceanic plates move apart and new crust is formed?

• crustal integrating
• sea-floor spreading

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Who first proposed the theory of continental drift'?

• Shackleton

• Wegener

• Hess

• Wilson

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What evidence did Wegener use in his theory?

• Continents and fossils fitting together/matching-up like puzzle pieces 
• glacier scars and evidence from temperature
• mountain ranges and coal deposits line up across continents
• all of the above

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Why did no one believe Wegener's thoery?

• He could not explain HOW the continents moved
• He didn't have evidence
• His data was wrong
• He didn't use the right technology to gather data

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What are the two types of crust?

• continental and oceanic
• ocean and basin
• lower and upper
• thick and thin

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