Plate Tectonics, Continental Drift, and Topographic Maps

This is a picture of glacier scars found in Africa. What are these evidence for?

• Africa has always been near the equator

• Africa was once in an area of the Earth that had a very cold climate

• The continents have not moved

• sea floor spreading

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What does the theory of continental drift state?

• The continents were once joined in a super-continent and have moved over time

• Continents are stationary and do not move

• The Earth is broken into lithospheric plates that move due to convection currents

• none of the above

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What evidence did Wegener use in his theory?

• Continents and fossils fitting together/matching-up like puzzle pieces

• glacier scars and evidence from temperature

• mountain ranges and coal deposits line up across continents

• all of the above

What kind of plate boundary is shown here?

• divergent

• convergent

• transform

• subducting

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What kind of plate boundary is shown here?

• divergent

• convergent

• transform

• submergent

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What kind of plate boundary is shown here?

• divergent

• convergent

• transform

• strike slip

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What geologic feature/event you be most likely to find at a transform boundary?

• Earthquakes

• Volcanoes

• Mountains

• Rift Valleys

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What geologic feature/event would you most likely to find at a divergent boundary between two pieces of oceanic crust?

• Rift Valley

• Mid-Ocean Ridge

• Island Arc

• Flat land

What geologic feature/event would you most likely to find at a divergent boundary between two pieces of continental crust?

• Mid-Ocean Ridge

• Mountain

• Rift Valley

• Island Arc

What geologic feature/event would you most likely to find at a convergent boundary between two pieces of continental crust?

• Volcano
• Mountain
• Rift
• Island Arc

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