What type of plate boundary is Hawaii on?

Silly Mr. Horn, it is not on a plate boundary

What is currently happening to the size of the Atlantic and why?

Getting bigger, sea-floor spreading

What features differ between convergent continental-oceanic and convergent oceanic-oceanic?

Oceanic-Oceanic have volcanic island arcs

What type of boundary is shown here?

Convergent Continental-Continental

Why was the Theory of Continental Drift originally rejected?

Could not explain driving force

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1
What type of plate boundary is Hawaii on?
Silly Mr. Horn, it is not on a plate boundary
Convergent oceanic-oceanic
Convergent continental-oceanic
Divergent oceanic-oceanic
2
What type of boundary is shown here?
Oceanic-oceanic divergent
Transform
Continental-oceanic convergent
Oceanic-oceanic convergent
3
What evidence supported the theory of continental drift?
Glacier evidence in India
Matching Fossils on different continents
Coal deposits in Antarctica
All of the above
4
What will disappear in a few million years?
Pacific Ocean
Mediterranean Sea
Rocky Mountains
Australia
5
What type of boundary is shown here?
Transform
Convergent
Divergent
Hot spot
6
If two oceanic plates collide, which will subduct and why?
Younger, cooler
Younger, warmer
Older, warmer
Older, cooler
7
The speed of sound is 1500m/s in water. A signal comes back to you in 1.8 seconds. How deep?
2700m
1350m
5400m
833m
8
You find a deep sea trench. You must be near a ...
Passive margin
Divergent boundary
Active margin
Hot spot
9
What is currently happening to the size of the Atlantic and why?
Getting bigger, subduction zone
Getting smaller, subduction zone
Getting smaller, sea-floor spreading
Getting bigger, sea-floor spreading
10
What features differ between convergent continental-oceanic and convergent oceanic-oceanic?
Oceanic-oceanic have deep sea trenches
All of the above
Oceanic-oceanic create earthquakes
Oceanic-Oceanic have volcanic island arcs
11
What occurs at plate boundaries?
All of the above
Earthquakes
Mountains
Volcanoes
12
When did Pangaea break up?
About 200 million years ago
About 40 million years ago
It will break up in about 200 million years
About 200 billion years ago
13
What type of boundary is shown here?
Convergent Oceanic-Oceanic
Divergent Oceanic-Oceanic
Convergent Continental-Continental
Divergent Continental-Continental
14
What is the abyssal plain?
Deep flat area of ocean floor
Flat region of splitting continent
Steep drop off of ocean
Underwater mountain range
15
Compared to Continental crust, Oceanic crust is....
Less likely to subduct
Thicker
Less dense
None of the above
16
Why was the Theory of Continental Drift originally rejected?
Could not explain driving force
Disproved later by sonar
All of the above
Not enough evidence
17
Eventually what will happen at this boundary?
Plates will slide past each other
A new ocean
Volcanic island arc
New mountain range
18
What occurs at this feature?
New crust is formed
Explosive volcanic eruptions
Non-volcanic mountain ranges
Old Crust is recycled
19
What type of boundary is on the west coast of South America?
Convergent Oceanic-Oceanic
Convergent Continental-Oceanic
Convergent Continental-Continental
Divergent Oceanic-Oceanic

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