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Plate Boundaries / Continental Drift
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What mostly happens at a Convergent plate boundary?
Mid- ocean ridges
Rift valleys
Mountains
earthqakes
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What forms if a divergent boundary happened on land?
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Rift Valleys
Mid- Ocean Ridge
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Why didn't anybody believe Wegener's theory of Continental Drift?
They just didn't believe it.
Didn't have an opinion.
Didn't have evidence.
Had a bunch of facts.
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What is NOT evidence that supports continental drift?
Oceans Line up.
Mountain ranges line up
Fit like a puzzle.
Same fossil on different continents.
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What type of movement occurs at a Divergent Boundary?
Come together
They move apart
Goes straight down
Slide past each other
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What would form if a divergent boundary happened on the ocean?
Mid-Ocean Ridge
Earthqakes
Volcanoes
Rift valleys
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What type of stress happens at a Divergent Boundary?
rarefaction
tension
Shearing
compression
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What type of movement occurs at a Convergent boundary?
Come together
Slide past each other
Move apart
Go straight down.
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What type of stress occurs at a Convergent Boundary?
Rarefaction
Compression
Tension
Shearing
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Which Boundary form a Mid- Ocean ridge?
Tansform
Divergent
Convergent
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What two separate continents did the find the same fossil?
South America and Antarctica
South America and Africa
Asia and Africa
Antarctica and Africa
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What type of stress occurs at a Transform boundary?
Rarefaction
Compression
Tension
Shearing
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At which boundary would an earthquake likely occur?
Divergent
Convergent
Transform
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What was one of the evidence used to explain Continental Drift?
Magnetic fields flipped.
Same fossil on two separate continents.
Same fossil in the same continent.
Magma cools new crust forms.
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What movement happens at a Transform Boundary?
Slide past each other
Come together
Move apart
Goes straight down.
