Plate Tectonics

Scientists hypothesize that a super continent existed 200 million years ago.  This continent is called

• America
• Super Earth
• Pangea
• Eurasia

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Convergent Plate Movement can create

• Rifts
• Mountains
• Ocean Ridges
• Radiation

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Divergent Plate movement can create

• Convection Currents
• Conduction
• Mountains
• Rifts and ocean ridges

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When pressure builds between two tectonic plates, it can suddenly release causing a (an) ______________________

• Earthquake
• Volcano
• Convection Current
• Gravitational Pull

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

• land features

• erosion

• climate

• fossils

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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 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 slip past each other moving in opposite directions?

• transform

• convergent

• divergent

What is the process by which the ocean floor sinks beneath a deep ocean trench and back into the mantle?

• continental drift

• mid-ocean ridge

• faults

• subduction

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