Earth's Interior and Tectonic Plates

In which area of Earth’s interior is the pressure most likely to be 1.2 million atmospheres?

• Asthenosphere
• Stiffer Mantle
• Inner Core
• Outer Core

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Earth's plates meet at ____________.

• plate tectonics

• plate boundaries

• continental drift

• oceans

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Most geologists think that the movement of Earth’s plates is caused by _______

• convection.

• continental drift.

• subduction.

• conduction.

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Which of these features would you expect to see at a convergent boundary?

• ridges

• rifts

• hot spots

• trenches and volcanoes

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Which of the following are evidence of the supercontinent Pangea

• South America and Africa looks like they fit together

• Lystrosaurus fossils found on India, Madagascar, Africa and Antarctica

• Evidence of glaciers found on Africa and South America

• All of these answers are evidence

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Convection currents that move the Earth's crust can be found in

• the inner core

• outer core

• stiffer mantle

• asthenosphere

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The Mariana Trench is the boundary between which two plates?

• Philippine Plate and Pacific Plate

• Eurasian Plate and North American Plate

• Scotia Plate and Sandwich Plate

• Nazca Plate and Cocos Plate

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Which of the following is an example of a transform plate boundary?

• Mid-Indian Ridge

• San Andreas Fault

• Peru-Chile Trench

• African Plate

Compared to oceanic crust, continental crust tends to be

• thicker, lighter colored and less dense

• thinner, lighter colored and more dense

• thicker, darker colored and more dense

• thinner, darker colored and less dense

Trilobite fossils were recently discovered in Himalayan Mountain bedrock. During which geologic period could these organisms have lived?

• Neogene

• Cretaceous

• Triassic

• Cambrian

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