Balanced Biosphere Chapter 1 Review

What are the pieces of the Earth's outer layer (crust) called?

• Tectonic plates
• Puzzles
• Earthquakes
• Plate boundaries

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A place where two plates slide past each other, moving in opposite directions, is known as a _______

• transform boundary

• divergent boundary.

• convergent boundary.

• rift valley.

The place where two plates move towards each other is known as a _______

• transform boundary.

• divergent boundary.

• convergent boundary.

• rift valley.

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Below is a picture of a mid-ocean ridge forming. How are the plates moving?

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transform

• No movement

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The San Andreas Fault in California is known as an active earthquake area. What type of

boundary are fault lines usually found at?

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transform

• Sea Floor Spreading

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Wegener’s claimed that the continents used to be closer together. Which types of evidence did he use to support his claim?

• GPS and satellite data

• the shape of the continents

• mountain and rock types

• fossil evidence

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Scientists hypothesize that a super continent existed 200 million years ago.  This continent is called...

• Africa

• North America

• Pangea

• Gondwanaland

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Most geologists think that the movement of Earth’s plates is caused by _______

• the soft, solid layer of rock under the continents called the mantle

• water underneath the continents

• ancient lizards swimming across the ocean

• people moving the land from one place to another

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When pressure builds between two tectonic plates, it can suddenly release causing a (an) ______________________

• Earthquake
• Volcano
• Convection Current
• Gravitational Pull

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When plates move away from each other at divergent boundaries, molten material rises up from the mantle and forms...

• fault lines

• mid ocean ridges

• deep ocean trenches
• north and south poles

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