Plate Motion Review

1. Who is a geologist?

• A. someone who studies the Moon

• B. someone who studies the Earth.

• C.someone who studies the Sun

• D.someone who studies the Bones

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2. Who is a paleontologist?

• A.someone who studies the Earth.

• B.someone who studies the history of life past and present

• C.someone who studies the labs

• D.someone who studies the Food

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3. What is a Mesosaurus?

• A. monkey

• B. extinct reptile that lived about 300 million years ago

• C. turtle

• D. snake

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5. How does his research help us learn about the geologic history of Earth?

• A. through snakes and turtles

• B. through the Earth's geological path and the organism themselves

• C. through the Earth's geological path and the sand

• D. through the organism themselves and water

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What does Cross Section mean?

• a diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like

• a diagram that shows what the outside of what something looks like

Geologists need to learn about what is inside Earth—something that can’t actually be seen.

• True

• False

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Earth’s outer layer is divided into sections called

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What do the RED LINES represent?

• Plate boundaries

• Volcano

• Earthquakes

A sudden shaking of Earth’s surface.

What am I?

• Volcano

• Plate Boundary

• Earthquake

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What does Convergent mean?

• moving toward different place

• moving toward the same place