What is the single land mass called?

• Atlas

• Pangea

• Acrisius

• Panda

What is the gradual movement of the continents across Earth's surface through time?

• continental drift

• pangea

• mid-Atlantic ridge

• All Earth

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The process of the Earth's crust being recycled is called____________.

• plate tectonics

• molten rock

• reduction

• subduction

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The tectonic plates are floating on:

• lava

• molten rock

• pangea

• fossils

Who came up with the theory of continental drift in 1912?

• Harry Hess

• Alfred Wegener

• Bill Nye

• Albert Einstein

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Everyone believed Alfred Wegener's theory of continental drift when he came up with it.

• true

• false

Because of the discovery of______________________in the 1960s, Wegener's theory was found to be true.

• the moon

• seafloor spreading

• pangea

• magma

One of the key pieces of evidence used to support Wegener's theory of continental drift was:

• fossils

• magma

• lava

• molten rock

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The old ocean floor goes back down into the_____________-to be destroyed and recycled.

• mantle

• crust

• subduction

• magma

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The two types of tectonic plates are:

• oceanic and magma

• Wegener and Hess

• oceanic and continental

• mantle and crust

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