3.1 Earth's Moving Surface

Alfred Wegener was responsible for what theory?

• Evolution

• the solar system

• the big bang

• continental drift

Where is the Earth's mantle?

• In the atmosphere.

• In the ocean.

• Below the crust.

• In the Earth's Core.

What type of plate boundary is the San Andreas Fault in California found along?

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transform

A Convergent Boundary is

• where two plates move apart

• where two plates slide past another

• crashes into another plate

• where two plates completely miss each other

A transform boundary

• moves away from another plate

• slides past another plate

• crashes into another plate

• dives beneath another plate

Earthquakes occur only on convergent plate boundaries.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

They occur on both boundary types.

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Where is the "Ring of Fire" located?

• California

• Around the edges of the Atlantic Ocean

• Around the edges of a Antarctica

• Around the edges of the Pacific Ocean

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How do volcanos move away from a hot spot?

• waves and currents

• fishes

• earthquakes

• tectonic plate movment

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Ocean trenches are found along what type of boundary?

• convergent boundary

• divergent boundary

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Which answer is not evidence to support the theory of continental drift?

• earthquakes

• the fossil record

• the continents look like puzzle pieces that fit together

• deposit of sediment that could have only been left by glaciers