Plate Tectonics

Is Earth's Landscape permanent?

• Yes, it never changes.

• No, it is always changing.

• Only in some places on earth

• Only every 20 years

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Why are new mountains being formed?

• New Mountains are NOT being formed

• Humans are making new mountains

• There are tremendous forces acting on earth that lead to the creation of mountains.

• New mountains are made every 5 years

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An Earthquake occurred in the state of California and scientists classified this earthquake as 4.0 on the Richter Scale. Based on this information, how strong was the earthquake?

• No one was able to feel the earthquake.

• The earthquake was felt but was minor and light.

• This was a major earthquake and caused substantial damage to buildings.

• This was a great earthquake that destroyed an entire community.

What are two energy sources that contribute to the earth's inner heat?

• Gravitational Potential energy and the decay of uranium and other radioactive materials.

• The sun's rays and magma

• potential energy and radioactive material

• magma and iron rich material found in earth's core

About how long does it take for earth's convection cells to go through a full cycle?

• 365 days

• 100 years

• 5,000,000 years

• 200,000,000 years

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The compelling model of the dynamic earth has emerged from studies of the ocean floor, paleomagnetism, rock dating, rock dating, and much other data is called what?

• continental drift

• architect

• plate tectonics

• rock ages

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About how much of earths surface is covered by continent ?

• 3/4

• 1/2

• 2/3

• 1/4

Alfred Wegner came up with the idea of continental drift.

• true

• false

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which type of sound waves are like sound waves?

• longitudinal

• transverse

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Hot spots move when plates move.

• true

• false

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