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Many earthquakes happen along the borders of...

• Countries
• Tetonic Plates
• Climate Zones
• None of the above.

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Label C

• continental slope
• continental shelf
• abyssal plain
• sea mount

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The theory that says Earth's continents once made up an ancient supercontinent, and have been drifting apart ever since, is called the theory of...

• Pangea
• Plate Tectonics
• Natural Selection
• Gravity

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

• transform boundary

• divergent boundary.

• convergent boundary.

• rift valley.

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Which of the following is used as evidence to support the theory of Pangaea

• Similar fossils on separated continents

• Cave drawings of fossils and rock types

• Rocks and geological formations that are same time period and composition

• Continents seem to fit like puzzle pieces

• The plate movement can be felt

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Volcanoes and Earthquakes typically occur _______________.

• along plate boundaries

• only under water

• only in hawaii

• where it is usually hot

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Name ocean feature

• seamount

• trench

• guyot

• continental slope

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Identify B

• continental slope

• guyot

• seamount

• continental shelf

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What was an evidence for plate tectonics that was claimed by the author of the theory?

• plate measurements

• knowledge of the mantle

• fossils on the coasts

• the movie Ice Age

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What are these plates doing?

• Diverging

• Converging

• Forming a transform boundary

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