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What can you conclude based on the patterns you observed across all of the maps you have analyzed? Select all that apply.

• Plate boundaries (dark black lines) are associated with areas of high volcanic and earthquake activity. 

• Volcanoes only happen on land.

• The areas of high elevations are aligned to plate boundaries in some locations and not in others.

• There is very little evidence of a pattern of earthquake and volcanic activity.

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Where is the youngest rock found in relation to a mid-ocean ridge?

• Far from where plates separate, because that is where magma solidifies.

• Far form where plates separate, because that is where plates slide beneath other plates.

• Close to where plates separate, because that is where magma solidifies.

• Close to where plates separate, because that is where plates slide beneath other plates.

Which evidence does NOT support Continental Drift Theory?

• Fossils of the same ancient plants and animals are found on different continents.

• Coal, which is evidence of tropical plants, is found in Antarctica.

• Many of the continents appear to fit together like a puzzle.

• Penguins can be found living on Antarctica and in South America.

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The age of rock on the ocean floor shows the youngest rock at the center and the oldest rock near the continents. How does this evidence support Continental Drift Theory?

• The younger rocks, in a process called seafloor spreading, are pushing the older rocks on the continents away from each other.

• The older rocks on the continents used to be the connected but are traveling over the younger rocks as the continents drift apart.

• The newer rock is denser and sinks to the bottom of the ocean while the older, less dense rock floats above the water and drifts.

• Volcanoes on the bottom of the ocean are constantly erupting and making new rock.

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Which of the following are characteristics of the Earth's plates?

• The plates are different sizes, and the plates are moving.

• The plates are different sizes, and the plates are not moving.

• The plates are the same size, and the plates are moving.

• The plates are the same size, and the plates are not moving.

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Which of the following claims can be made from the data and map presented above?

• Sinabung is located over a more active region of tectonic plates than Raung

• There is more tectonic plate activity near Java compared to Sumatra

• Both Sinabung and Raung are located on a divergent plate boundary

• There is a greater convection current under Sumatra than under Java

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Wegener also claimed that the continents moved over time to where they currently sit. Given the evidence for Pangaea, why was his theory of continental drift NOT widely accepted?

• He didn’t have enough evidence.

• People didn’t believe that fossils were once living organisms.

• Wegener was not able to explain how the continents could have moved. 

• People knew that large pieces of rock do not move on their own.

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What did Earth look like in the past?

• The Earth has always looked the same as it does today.

• The continents were in different locations than they are today.

• There were more continents than there are today

• There was less water in the oceans as compared to today.

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Which location on the world map above is a place where new plate material is being formed?

• Point A

• Point B

• Point C

• Point D

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What event often occurs where two (2) plates slide alongside each other?

• Volcanic eruptions

• Earthquakes

• Mountain formation

• Ocean trench formation

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