Unit 3 Plate Tectonics

What is represented by the picture? 

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

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When plates are moving away from each other.

• Convergent

• Volcanic

• Divergent

• Transform

When the plates are sliding along one another in opposite directions:

• Transform

• Volcanic

• Convergent

• Divergent

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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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Where would the oldest rock be found?

• L
• M
• N
• O

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Who is the person credited with developing the theory of continental drift?

• Harry Hess
• Galileo
• Alfred Wegener
• Newton

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Why was Wegener's theory not accepted?

• He had no proof of how they were moving
• He had no evidence
• He was married
• He was not a Scientist

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Which layer is made of solid iron & nickel?

• inner core
• outer core
• mantle
• crust

A wave produced by a earthquake.

• p-waves
• t-waves
• q-waves
• seismic waves

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P waves travel faster than S waves

• True

• False