Dynamic Planet

What happens when the edges of two continental plates collide?

• The edges of both plates will be pushed upward as the plates continue to move toward each other.

• The edges of both plates will be pushed downward as the plates continue to move toward each other.

• One plate will stop moving, and one plate wil push upward as it continues to move toward the other plate.

• Both plates will stop moving.

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The layer that makes up most of the Earth's mass and volume is the

• crust

• mantle

• core

• asthenosphere

What evidence supports seafloor spreading where older crust is found further away from the mid-ocean ridge?

• fossil evidence

• volcanic evidence

• mountain rock evidence

• magnetic reversal

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Name the boundary...

• convergent boundary

• divergent boundary

• transform boundary

• convection

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A subduction zone is formed...

• when one tectonic plate sinks below another.

• at every type of convergent plate boundary.

• at every type of divergent plate boundary.

• at transform boundaries.

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When a subduction zone forms where a oceanic plate and continental plate meet a ______ can form.

• mountain

• island arc

• rift

• volcano and trench

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Who is the person credited with developing the theory of continental drift?

• Harry Hess

• Galileo

• Alfred Wegener

• James Cameron

What are mid-ocean ridges?

• a chain of underwater waterfalls 

• a chain of underwater volcanoes

• a chain of underwater mountains

• a chain of underwater rocks

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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

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Which of the following is created by a divergent boundary?

• Rocky Mountains

• Mariana Trench

• Mid Atlantic Ridge

• Himalaya Mountains

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