Plate Tectonics

What type of boundary is this?

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

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What type of boundary is this?

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

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What type of boundary is this?

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

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What evidence was NOT used by Wegener as proof of continental drift?

• land features

• glacial movement

• weather and climate

• fossils

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Any trace of an ancient organism that has been preserved in rock is called a

• landform

• fossil

• ocean

• landmass

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According to Wegener's theory of continental drift,

• Earth's surface is made up of a solid layer of crust

• the continents do not drift

• Earth is slowly cooling and shrinking

• is the theory that describes how Earth’s outer layer is broken up into moving tectonic plates.

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What is Pangea?

• the name of a German scientist

• the name of a supercontinent that existed 280 mya

• another name for continental drift

• the name of an ancient fossil

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What type of event happens at a transform boundary?

• subduction

• plates

• earthquakes

• sea floor spreading

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What is the process that continually adds new crust to the ocean floor along both sides of the mid-ocean ridge?

• sudduction

• sea floor spreading

• earthquakes

• continental drift

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Where does the energy come from that causes the cycling of material in the mantle.

• ocean

• sun

• the Core

• mantle

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