Plate Tectonics Review

How heat energy moves through liquids and gases

• conduction

• convection

• radiation

• subduction

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The idea that the continents were once joined and then broke apart

• seafloor spreading

• plate tectonics

• continental drift

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The idea that the ocean floor moves is called

• seafloor spreading

• plate tectonics

• continental drift

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The idea of continental drift is credited to

• Howard Hess

• Albert Einstein

• Charles Lyell

• Alfred Wegener

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The idea of seafloor spreading is credited to

• Alfred Wegener

• Harry Hess

• Albert Einstein

• Charles Lyell

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Which of the following is not evidence for seafloor spreading

• pillow basalt

• puzzle piece fit of continents

• age of rocks increases as you get farther from ridge

• magnetized stripes

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Wegener's supercontinent was known as

• Glossopteris

• Eurasia

• Pangea

• Gondwandaland

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When a substance is heated its density

• increases

• decreases

• stays the same

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The lithosphere (crust) is broken into sections called

• plates

• faults

• ridges

• trenches

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A break in Earth's crust is called a

• plate

• rift

• trench

• fault