What is a divergent plate boundary?

Where two tectonic plates move away from each other

Evidence for Continental Drift: Rocks of same age and make-up are spread across several distantly spread continents

Distribution of Rocks and Structures

How do mountains get built?

When two continental plates run into each other

Molten rock that is found under/in Earth's crust

Molten rock found at Earth's surface

What is a hot spot volcano?

A volcano found in the middle of a plate due to a weak spot in the crust

What is the Ring of Fire?

The plate boundaries that ring the Pacific Rim b/c earthquakes + volcanoes

The remains, imprint or evidence of a living thing sometime in the past

What is an Igneous rock?

A rock that is formed from molten (liquid) and cooled rock

What is a Sedimentary rock?

A rock that is formed from broken pieces of other rock

What is the Continental Drift Theory?

Continents are constantly in motion

What is a Metamorphic rock?

A rock that is changed due to heat and pressure

When one plate is forced underneath the other

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1
What is Pangea?
The last supercontinent that the current continents broke away from
A large underwater volcanic eruption
A dinosaur fossil
A large underwater earthquake
2
Evidence for Continental Drift: The fact the continents today look like they go together like puzzle pieces.
Fit of the Continents
Distribution of Rocks and Structures
Distribution of Fossils
Climate Zones
3
At what type of plate boundary are most volcanoes located near?
Transform
Convergent
Divergent
No plate boundary
4
What is a tsunami?
A flood associated with a hurricane
A unusually large sea wave caused by a natural disaster
The sudden release of molten rock from Earth's crust
The shaking of the ground due to the movement of rock in Earth's crust
5
What kind of stress is found at a convergent plate boundary?
Shearing
None
Compression
Tention
6
What is a divergent plate boundary?
New rock being made from pieces of other broken down rock
Where two tectonic plates slip past each other in opposite directions
Where two tectonic plates move away from each other
Where two tectonic plates move toward each other
7
Evidence for Continental Drift: Rocks of same age and make-up are spread across several distantly spread continents
Distribution of Fossils
Distribution of Rocks and Structures
Climate Zones
Fit of the Continents
8
How do mountains get built?
When two oceanic plates run into each other
Only due to volcanic activity
When two continental plates run into each other
When an oceanic plate and a continental plate run into each orher
9
What kind of stress is found at a divergent plate boundary?
None
Compression
Shearing
Tention
10
What is magma?
Molten rock that is found under/in Earth's crust
One plate subducting underneath another
Molten rock found at Earth's surface
When two plates move away from one another
11
What is lava?
One plate subducting underneath another
Molten rock that is found under/in Earth's crust
When two plates move away from one another
Molten rock found at Earth's surface
12
What causes the continents/plates to move?
Earth's magnetic field
Large earthquakes
Seafloor spreading
Large volcanic eruptions
13
Scientist theorize there have been several supercontinents in Earth's past
True
False
14
Evidence for Continental Drift: Many fossils of the SAME species are spread across several distantly spread continents
Distribution of Rocks and Structures
Fit of the Continents
Distribution of Fossils
Climate Zones
15
How much does an earthquakes' shaking increase with each whole number on the Richter scale?
1,000 times
100 times
10 times
1 time(s)
16
What kind of stress is found at a transform plate boundary?
Compression
None
Shearing
Tention
17
What is a hot spot volcano?
Underwater volcanoe
A volcano found at a transform plate boundary
A volcano that is extinct
A volcano found in the middle of a plate due to a weak spot in the crust
18
What is the Ring of Fire?
A nickname for all volcanoes
The volcanoes of the Cascade Range
The Himilayas
The plate boundaries that ring the Pacific Rim b/c earthquakes + volcanoes
19
What is a fossil?
Particles of sediment that settle to the bottom of a body of water
The remains, imprint or evidence of a living thing sometime in the past
Small pieces of rock and/or minerals
A solid substance that forms naturally
20
What is an Igneous rock?
A rock that is formed from broken pieces of other rock
A space rock
A rock that is formed from molten (liquid) and cooled rock
A rock that is changed due to heat and pressure
21
What is a Sedimentary rock?
A space rock
A rock that is changed due to heat and pressure
A rock that is formed from molten (liquid) and cooled rock
A rock that is formed from broken pieces of other rock
22
What is the Continental Drift Theory?
Continents are constantly in motion
Continents stay in the same spot over time
Large earthquakes cause the continents to move
Large volcanic eruptions cause the continents to move
23
Evidence for Continental Drift: evidence of past climates do not match current continent locations/distance from equator
Fit of the Continents
Climate Zones
Distribution of Fossils
Distribution of Rocks and Structures
24
What is a Metamorphic rock?
A rock that is formed from molten (liquid) and cooled rock
A rock that is changed due to heat and pressure
A rock that is formed from broken pieces of other rock
A space rock
25
What is subduction?
When one plate is forced underneath the other
When two plates rip away from each other
When two plates move past one another
When two continental plates run into each other

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