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Movement of the Earth
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Challenge your knowledge of the Earth's plate techtonics for 6th grade.
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What did Wegener discover about similar geology across the Atlantic?
Rock stratta almost same in Brasil and South Africa
Both
Appalachia & Scottish highlands almost identical
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What is the outer layer of the earth called?
magma
core
mantle
crust
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Wegener became obsessed with
balloons
geophysics
Antarctica
4
Underneath the crust is...
the mantle
induction
magma
rocks
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What did Wegener pioneer using balloons?
weather messages
tracking air currents
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What happens when the land mass and rock is pushed back down into the Earth?
it releases Carbon Dioxide
Both
it melts
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Seduction only happens to ocean crust.
No
Yes
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How many cores are there?
1
3
4
2
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Converging plates drive plates
away from each other
towards each other
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Alfred Wegener was born in
Australia
Germany
Austria
Belgium
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Moving fragments of Earth are called:
tectonic plates
mantle
magma
crust
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Where does the land go that collides from moving plates of Earth?
deep into the Earth
it breaks apart and sits above the crust
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What is created when this Carbon Dioxide Gas escapes back into the earth's atmosphere?
Tsunami
Earthquake
Volcano
Tornado
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Diverging plates pull them
apart
together
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When land masses came back together it was called:
Nina
Atlantica
Pangaea
Rodea
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How did people used to think continents were connected?
land bridges
boats
polar ice caps
techtonic plates
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The earth's plates move because hot rock rises, heated by the earth's core.
Yes
No
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There is radioactive decay in the core of the Earth.
Yes
No
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California may have once been neighbors with:
Brazil
Australia
Chile
South Africa
