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Name the boundary

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

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The San Andreas Fault in California is an example of a ________.

• divergent boundary
• convergent boundary
• transform fault
• subduction zone

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What is this a picture of?

• plate tectonics
• continental drift
• pangea
• glacier scaring

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What do volcanic island arcs indicate about the plate tectonics in the region?

• a converging plate boundary
• a diverging plate boundary
• a transform plate boundary
• new seafloor being created

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What did Wegener think happened during continental drift?

• continents froze over
• continents moved
• the mantle warmed
• convection stopped

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What was Wegener's hypothesis?

• The continents have always been where they are today
• We live on a super continent today
• Super continent, called Pangaea, that drifted apart

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The longest mountain chain in the world, the mid-Atlantic ridge, was produced by which boundary?

• divergent

• allegiant

• convergent

• transform

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Tectonic plates:

• move slowly

• sometimes press against or pull away from each other

• sometimes scrape against each other

• all of the choices above

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Other evidence include __________________ that plate tectonics does occurr in the crust of the Earth.

• Rock formation, weather, fossils

• Mountain formation, fossils, climate

• Land features, fossils, climate

• Valleys, Ocean trenches, climate

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Which type of boundary is this?

• transform

• divergent

• convergent

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