Plate Tectonics Chapter Review

What type of boundary is illustrated?

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Which layer of the Earth forms tectonic plates?

During subduction, what causes one plate to go under another plate?

• the plates are part of the ring of fire

• it is more dense than the top plate

• volcanoes force the magma under

• it is less dense than the top plate

What is the label at 1?

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Similar rocks and fossils are found on different present-day continents. Which answer explains why?

• similar rocks are commonly found everywhere

• the same forces erode mountains in different locations

• organisms traveled across land bridges

• continents were once joined together in the past

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Which scientist proposed the idea of sea floor spreading?

The area where earthquakes and volcanoes are caused by convergent boundaries due to one plate sliding under another.

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What is another name for the supercontinent?

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What is the label at 3

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