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When an oceanic plate and a continental plate collide, which one will subduct?

• oceanic
• continental
• neither

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Supporting Evidence: discovery of Mid-Atlantic Ridge, core rock samples showing older rocks the farther that you get from the mid ocean ridge

• Continental Drift
• Seafloor Spreading
• Plate Tectonics

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What kind of plate boundary is shown here?

• divergent
• convergent
• transform
• strike slip

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The rock formation labeled "P" is a(n)...

• fault
• intrusion
• inclusion
• unconformity

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The distribution of earthquakes on Earth’s surface is evidence that Earth’s crust is divided into ____.

• dishes
• oceans
• plates
• mantle

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Alfred Wegener used __________ to prove that Pangea once existed ?

• graham crackers and frosting

• math

• a metal detector

• fossils

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What type of boundary is shown in the diagram?

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Transform

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This famous transform fault is located in the western United States creates significant earthquake activity for California

• New Madrid
• Denali Fault
• Ramapo Seismic Zone
• San Andreas

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This was the super continent, where all of the Earth’s continents were connected together

• Beringia

• Pantheon

• Pangaea

• Continentia

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

boundary is it?

• Converging

• Diverging

• Transform

• Sea Floor Spreading

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