Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics

A break in the earth's surface is called...

This theory states that continents can move apart from each other and have done so in the past.

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Compressional stress happens at what type of boundary?

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What is the name of the supercontinent that Wegner belived all continents broke off from?

• Laurasia

• Gondwanaland

• Pangea

• Panthalassa

True or False Pangea and Panthalassa are latin words meaning all lands and all seas

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Pangea and Panthalassa are of greek origins, but they do mean all lands and all seas

Who created the continental drift theory?

• Frederick Vine

• Alfred Wegener

• Lawrence Morley

• Drummond Matthews

The study of the movement and changes in the rocks that make up the Earth's crust is called

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This type of rock stress happens at divergent boundaries and occurs when plates move apart

the permanent change of the shape or volume of rocks is

• deformation

• folding

• faulting

• fracturing

The three types of plate boundaries are... select all that apply

• compressional

• convergent

• shearing

• transform

• divergent

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