What will happen in 150 million years if plate movements continue at their current rates?

Africa will collide with Eurasia

What are the three types of plate boundaries?

Transform, Divergent, and Convergent Boundaries

What happens at Divergent Boundaries?

Two plates move away from each other

What happens at Convergent Boundaries?

Two plates collide against each other

What happens at Transform Boundaries

Two plates slide past each other horizontally

Why are unique species of plants and animals found on Madagascar?

Species were separated and they evolved

What evidence was found that supports the theory of continental drift?

Tropical plant fossils found on Antartica

What is the Ring of Fire?

A zone of volcanoes that encircle the Pacific Ocean

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1
What is the process where terranes become part of a continent?
Atolls
Shields
Accretion
Cratons
2
The hypothesis that the continents once formed a single landmass, broke up, and drifted away?
Supercontinent
Plate Tectonics
Continental Drift
Pangaea
3
What will happen in 150 million years if plate movements continue at their current rates?
North America will collide with Eurasia
Africa will collide with Eurasia
India will collide with Australia
Antarctica will collide with South America
4
How did the Himalaya Mountains form?
India collided with Africa
India collided with North America
India collided with Australia
India collided with Eurasia
5
About 250 million years ago, Pangaea broke up into what two continents?
Laurasia and Gondwanaland
Eurasia and Antralia
Antralia and Laurasia
Gondwanaland and Eurasia
6
What is the process by which supercontinents form and break apart over time?
Continental Drift
Pangaea
Panthalassa
Supercontinent cycle
7
What is formed when a oceanic lithosphere subducts under continental lithosphere?
Volcanoes
Deep Ocean Trenches
Island Arc
Mountain Ranges
8
What was the single large ocean that surrounded Pangaea?
Atlantic
Pacific
Panthalassa
Palantic
9
What was the supercontinent that formed 300 million years ago?
Panthalassa
Gondwanaland
Pangaea
Laurasia
10
What forces of natures can help identify plate boundaries?
Volcanoes and Earthquakes
Hurricanes and Earthquakes
Tsunamis and Volcanoes
Tornadoes and Tsunamis
11
Where are the newest rocks on Earth found?
Near mid-ocean-ridges
In the Himalaya Mountains
In the Grand Canyon
On the beach
12
What are the three types of plate boundaries?
Floating, Transform, and Fault Boundaries
Permanent, Fault, and Convergent Boundaries
Transform, Divergent, and Convergent Boundaries
Divergent, Floating, and Permanent Boundaries
13
What happens at Divergent Boundaries?
Two plates slide past each other vertically
Two plates move away from each other
Two plates slide past each other horizantally
Two plates collide together
14
What materials can form terranes?
Cratons and Shields
Lithosphere and Asthenosphere
Deep Ocean Trenches and Underwater Volcanoes
Seamounts and Atolls
15
What are undersea mountain ranges?
Mid-Ocean-Ridge
Oceanic Crust
Lithosphere
Rift
16
What is the movement of heated material due to differences in density and temperature?
Conduction
Core
Convection
Magma
17
What happens at Convergent Boundaries?
Two plates move away from each other
Two plates collide against each other
Two plates slide past each other horzontally
Two plates slide past each other vertically
18
What happens at Transform Boundaries
Two plates collide with each other
Two plates slide past each other vertically
Two plates move away from each other
Two plates slide past each other horizontally
19
Why are unique species of plants and animals found on Madagascar?
People imported species onto the island and they evolved
They landed there on shipping containers
Species were separated and they evolved
Madagascar's climate changed dramatically and they evolved
20
What is a rift?
Molten rock that cools and solidifies
A crack in the Earth's crust
Magnetic properties of rock
A mountain in the Earth's crust
21
What evidence was found that supports the theory of continental drift?
Tropical plant fossils found on Antartica
Matching mountain ranges on South America and North America
Reptile fossils found on India and Asia
Australia fits almost perfect into Africa
22
What is a piece of lithosphere that has unique geological history from surrounding lithosphere?
Shields
Fossils
Terrane
Cratons
23
What is the force that occurs when the asthenosphere exerts force on the rest of the plate?
Slab Push
Plate Drift
Ridge Push
Plate Motion
24
What is the Ring of Fire?
A zone of volcanoes that encircle the Atlantic Ocean
A zone of volcanoes that encircle the Pacific Ocean
A zone of plates where earthquakes regularly occur
A zone of volcanoes that encircle the Indian Ocean
25
What is the process by which Earth's crust breaks apart?
Rifting
Drifting
Shields
Cratons

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