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Who noticed similar rocks and fossil remains on continents which seemed to fit together?

• Charles Darwin

• Antonio Pelligrini

• Alfred Wegener

• Isaac Newton

What did Alfred Wegener call the large landmass that included all of Earth’s present-day continents?

• Pangaea

• Gondwana

• Rodinia

• Laurasia

What is the driving force of plate tectonics?

• Magnetic field

• Convection Current

• Gravitational pull

• Solar radiation

What is the geologic process in which tectonic plates split apart from each other as a result of mantle convection?

• Erosion

• Subduction

• Seafloor spreading

• Volcanism

What are the boundaries between two plates that are diverging, or moving away from each other called?

• Subduction Boundaries

• Convergent Boundaries

• Transform Boundaries

• Divergent Boundaries

What landform is caused by oceanic-continental convergent boundaries?

• Mountain ranges

• Faults

• Rift valleys

• Volcanoes

What is the composition of the Earth’s plates that move around on the mantle?

• Crust and Mantle

• Mantle and Core

• Lithosphere and Asthenosphere

• Outer core and Inner core

What is the sequence of events leading to the formation, expansion, contracting, and eventual elimination of ocean basins called?

• Oceanic cycle

• Continental cycle

• Tectonic cycle

• Wilson cycle

What is the evidence that continents fit together like puzzle pieces called?

• Fossil evidence

• Shape of the continents

• Rock evidence

• Glacial scars

What is the plastic-like layer below the lithosphere called?

• Inner core

• Mantle

• Asthenosphere

• Outer core