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What are convergent boundries?
A location where two tectonic plates are moving towards eachother.
A location where two tectonic plates slide against eachother.
A location where two tectonic plates are moving away from eachother.
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Tectonic plates are a small number of plates that float on and travel across the mantel.
True
False
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What are transform boundries?
A location where two tectonic plates are moving towards eachother.
A location where two tectonic plates are moving away from eachother.
A location where two tectonic plates slide against eachother.
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Mt. Everest is created by a convergent subduction boundary.
False
True
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Who came up with the theory of seafloor spreading.
Harry Wagner.
Alfred Wegener.
Alfred Wagner.
Harry Hess.
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What is Augusts favortie animal?
Chicken
Cow
Sheep
Goat
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What are subduction zones?
A location where two tectonic plates are moving towards eachother.
A location where tow tectonic plates are moving away from eachother.
A location where two tectonic plates slide alongside one another.
A location where two plates meet and once slides under another.
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Who helped prove the theory of pangea?
Alfred Hess.
Harry Wegener.
Harry Hess.
Alfred Wegener.
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What are the three main layers of the earth?
Lithosphere, Athenosphere, Core.
Sediment, Magma, Crust.
Core, Mantel, Lithosphere.
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What are convection currents?
A supercontinent that existed 225 million years ago.
A theory that seafloor starts along the mid-ocean ridge that spreads out.
The continents slowly drifting across the earths surface.
Movement in a fluid due to a difference in temperature.
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Which type of plate boundires can cause mountains?
Divergent.
Transform.
Convergent.
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What are divergent boundries?
A location where two tectonic plates are moving towards eachother.
A location where two tectonic plates slide against eachother.
A location where two tectonic plates are moving away from eachother.
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What is continental drift?
Gradual movement of continents across the earths surface.
Quick movement of continents on the earths surface.
Oceanic crust that froms along the mid-ocean ridege and spreads outward.
A theoretical supercontinents that exsited about 225 million years ago.
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What is the "Ring of Fire"?
A series of mountains around the world.
Lava that comes out of a split in the middle of the atlantic.
A series of volcanoes around the world.
An underwater mountain range.
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What is seafloor spreading?
A supercontinent that existed 225 million years ago.
The continents slowly drifting across the earths surface.
Movement in a fluid due to a difference in temperature.
A theory that seafloor starts along the mid-ocean ridge that spreads out.
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What is Pangea?
A theory that seafloor starts along the mid-ocean ridge that spreads out.
The continents slowly drifting across the earths surface.
A supercontinent that existed 225 million years ago.
Movement in a fluid due to a difference in temperature.
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Who first came up with the idea of pangea?
Harry Hess.
Alfred Hess.
Alfred Wegener.
Harry Wegener.
