Plate Tectonics

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

• land features

• erosion

• climate

• fossils

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What is a plate boundary where both plates move away from each other?

• divergent

• plate

• convergent

• transform

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

• landform

• continent

• fossil

• landmass

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According to Wegener's theory of continental drift,

• Earth's surface is made up of seven major landmasses

• the continents do not drift

• Earth is slowly cooling and shrinking

• the continents were once joined together in a single landmass and have slowly moved.

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What is Pangea?

• the name of a German scientist

• the name of a supercontinent that existed millions of years ago

• another name for continental drift

• the name of an ancient fossil

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What are breaks in Earth's crust where rocks have slipped past each other?

• sea floor spreading

• subduction

• plates

• faults

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

• subduction

• continental drift

• convergent

• sea floor spreading

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What is a plate boundary where two plates move toward each other?

• transform

• convergent

• divergent

What is a plate boundary where two plates slip past each other moving in opposite directions?

• transform

• convergent

• divergent

What type of landform is at C?

• mid-ocean ridge

• continental crust

• deep ocean trench

• sea floor spread

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