Plate Tectonics and CER's '23

Mountains form from ...

• plates sliding past one another
• collision of plates
• plates moving away from each other

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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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What was Wegener's hypothesis called?

• The Pangea 
• Moving Continents 
• The Continental Drift
• Techtonic Plates

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Why was Alfred Wegner's theory of Continental Drift not immediately accepted by scientists?

• there was no mechanism to explain how Continental Drift happened.
• The theory of Continental Drift was immediately accepted by the scientific community.
• there was no evidence to support his theory.
• Scientists did not think it was possible for the Continents to move.

What evidence was NOT used by Wegener as proof of continental drift?

• land features

• erosion

• climate

• fossils

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Any trace of an ancient organism that has been preserved in rock is called a

• landform

• continent

• fossil

• landmass

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What is Pangea?

• the name of a German scientist

• the name of a supercontinent that existed millions of years ago

• another name for continental drift

• the name of an ancient fossil

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Most geologists think that the movement of Earth's plates is caused by

• conduction

• earthquakes

• convection currents in the mantle

• Earth's magnetic field

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What are the places of Earth's crust that carry the continents and oceans?

• sea floor spreading

• continental drift

• plates

• faults

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The geological theory that states that pieces of Earth's plates are in constant, slow motion, driven by convection currents is the theory of

• subduction

• plate tectonics

• deep ocean trenches

• sea floor spreading

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