Earth and Environmental Quiz 4.1

What type of boundary is this?

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

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What type of boundary is this?

• convergent

• transform

• divergent

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What type of boundary is this?

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

According to Wegener's theory of continental drift,

• Earth's surface is made up of seven major landmasses

• the continents do not drift

• Earth is slowly cooling and shrinking

• the continents were once joined together in a single landmass and have slowly moved.

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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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What is the process that continually adds new crust to the ocean floor along both sides of the mid-ocean ridge?

• subduction

• continental drift

• convergent

• sea floor spreading

What type of landform is at C?

• mid-ocean ridge

• continental crust

• deep ocean trench

• sea floor spread

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In sea floor spreading, molten material rises from the mantle and erupts

• along the edge of the continents

• along the mid-ocean ridges

• in deep ocean trenches

• at the North and South pole

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Identify the landform labeled A

• mid-ocean ridge

• deep ocean trench

• sea floor spread

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What is the process by which the ocean floor sinks beneath a deep ocean trench and back into the mantle?

• continental drift

• mid-ocean ridge

• faults

• subduction

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