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When plates slide past one another, _________ occur.

• divergent boundaries
• convection currents
• subduction zones
• transform faults

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Name the boundary

• convergent boundary
• divergent boundary
• transform boundary
• sergent boundary

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In sea-floor spreading, molten material rises from the mantle and erupts

• along the edges of all the continents
• along mid ocean ridges
• in deep ocean trenches
• at the north and south poles

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What is the theory that states that parts of the Earth's crust slowly drift atop a liquid core.

• Theory of Evolution
• Heliocentric Theory
• Geocentric Theory
• Continental Drift Theory

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In what type of rock would you typically find fossils?

• igneous
• metamorphic
• sedimentary
• rocky

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What forms at a divergent boundary between two oceanic plates?

• rift valley
• mountain
• mid-ocean ridge
• trench

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Was was Wegener's hypothesis rejected?

• He had no evidence for it

• More detailed maps show that continents don't match up

• No continents had similar fossils to support him.

• He couldn't explain how the continents could be moved

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Which statement is most likely true regarding this fossil found in the Imperial Valley?

• The Imperial Valley was formed before Pangaea.

• The Imperial Valley was formed from an ancient mountain erupting

• The Imperial Valley was once underwater.

• The canals of the Imperial Valley bring in fresh ocean water full of sea fossils.

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Tectonic plates float on top of the

• crust

• asthenosphere

• lower mantle

• outer core

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Scientists at the time rejected Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift because he could not explain how or why Earth's continents move.

• True

• False

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