7.2 Quarter 2 Review

Earthquakes and volcanoes are generally located on...

• The middle of the continents. 
• the edges of plate boundaries.
• randomly spaced out places on Earth's surface. 
• the depths of the Earth's core.

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What causes the plates to move?

• Magic

• Erosion

• Convection

• Earthquakes

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How does convection move the plates?

• Hot liquid rock from the Earth's mantle rises pushing the cold crust out of the way forming new land.

• Cold crust sinks and the frozen inner core becomes liquid forming a river.

• Ocean currents help move the plates.

• Hot crust sinks and the cold mantle rises to move the plates

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How is it possible for a fossil of the same species be found on separate continents.

• They lived there to began with.

• They decided to swim across the ocean. the journey weakened them and they died to form a fossil.

• Fossils are found on different continents because the crust used to be in a different shape.

• Humans moved them millions of years ago.

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The area around the Pacific Ocean where lots of earthquakes and volcanoes happen is called the (a)   .

• Ring of Earth
• Ring of Fire
• Ring of Stone
• Ring of Diamond

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Lava that is still deep inside the earth is called (a)   .

• lava
• magma
• volcano
• earthquake

What type of boundary is shown in the diagram?

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Transform

What type of boundary is shown in the diagram? (a)  

• Divergent
• Convergent
• Slide/Transform

The type of plate boundary where two plates come together is a .....

• Convergent Boundary

• Divergent Boundary

• Transform Boundary

• Plate Boundary

What was the name given to all the continents when they were joined as one super continent? (a)  

• Supreme Continent
• Eurasia
• Plate tectonics
• Pangea