Pangaea and Plate Tectonics

Around how much does a typical plate move in a year?

• 1-6 inches

• 6 inches to 2 feet

• 2 feet to 6 feet

• 1 mile

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What do we call the portion of the Earth that moves in tectonic plates

• atmosphere

• geosphere

• lithosphere

• hydrosphere

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How do we think we know what the inside of the Earth looks like?

• because we have dug to the middle of the earth

• mountains

• earthquakes

• lithosphere

What type of tectonic boundary occurs where two plates are pushing apart?

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

• all of the above

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What are two plates that are sliding past each other called?

• divergent

• convergent

• transform

• all of the above

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What is it called when plates push together?

• divergent

• convergent

• transform

• all of the above

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At what type of plate boundary is new land formed when magma pushes up from the mantle and cools?

• divergent

• convergent

• transform

• all of the above

At which boundary do earthquakes occur?

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

• all of the above

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Wegener found evidence of what on the different continents that were an ocean apart?

• fossils

• people

• books

• fingerprints

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What is a person called who studies the Earth?

• meteorologist

• geologist

• seamstress

• baker

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