Extra Credit Mahirah Sufiyan period 4

What does the theory of continental drift state?

• The continents were once joined in a super-continent and have moved over time

• Continents are stationary and do not move

• The Earth is broken into plates

• none of the above

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What was Pangea?

• A Mountain Range

• A plate boundary

• A supercontinent where all Earth's land masses were joined together. (1)

• A crack in the earth

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The Theory of Continental Drift states that Pangaea broke apart and the continents "drifted" away from each other because of convection currents in earths mantle. True or False?

• True

• False

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What happens in earth's Mantle that drives all plate movement?  

• Convergent Boundary

• Ocean Currents

• Convection Currents

• Land currents

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What is happening when both the oceanic and continental plates converge

• Convergent

• Subduction

• Convection Current

• None of the above

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What boundary does subduction occur

• Convection Current

• Convergent Boundary

• Transform Boundary

• Divergent Boundary

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Name the boundary

• convergent boundary
• divergent boundary
• transform boundary
• sergent boundary

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Who is the person who FIRST proposed the theory of continental drift?

• Harry Hess

• Galileo

• Alfred Wegener

• Newton

What is created when two continental plates converge together?  

• Mountains
• Tsunami
• Earthquake
• Volcano

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What is created when one continental and one oceanic plate converge?  

• Volcano
• Mountain
• Tsunami
• Earthquake