Plate boundaries and surface features

Draw arrows to represent Divergent boundaries

Examples of the Earth Moving on a massive scale

• Volcanoes

• Wind

• Water

• Earthquakes

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Tectonic plates are found on

• The ground

• Earth's Crust

• Earth's core

• The water

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Draw arrows to represent Convergant boundaries

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The process where new ocean floor is formed through volcanic activity and slowly moves away from the ridge

• Continental Drift

• Pangea

• Seafloor spreading

• Ocean waves

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A break or fracture in the ground that occurs when plates move or shift

• Seafloor spreading

• volcano

• fault line

What did Alfred Wegener use as evidence to prove that the continents were once joined together and slowly moved apart?

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Earthquakes and volcanic activity occur at

• The seafloor

• Continents

• Plate boundaries

• Pangea

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Roughly how many tectonic plates make up Earth's crust?

• About 20

• 7

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Who came up with the continental drift theory

• Alfred Wegener

• Albert Einstien

• John Hess