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1
If you were to travel from Maine to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, the seafloor rock would be...
Getting younger
Getting older
Staying the same age, it's rock
2
The four major layers of the Earth are (in order from the Earth's surface)...
Crust/Mantle/Inner Core/Outer Core
Crust/Mantle/Outer Core/Inner Core
Crust/Mantle/Lithosphere/Core
Crust/Lithosphere/Asthenosphere/Mantle
3
The continents were once all connected as a "super continent" known as...
Pancakea
Pangaea
Panchoeia
Pantaea
4
At a divergent plate boundary...
Tectonic plates do not move
Tectonic plates slide past one another
Tectonic plates move apart
Tectonic plate move towards
5
Plate tectonics is driven by what process?
Continents floating away on the oceans
Gravity pulling plates apart and pushing others towards
Convention in the mantle
Convection in the mantle
6
Seafloor spreading states that...
Magma seeps out from ocean ridges, new seafloor is created
Plates spread apart and trenches are formed
Magma seeps out to fill trenches, creating new seafloor
None of the above
7
Similar mountain ranges found in North America and Greenland are an example of climate clues.
False
True
8
The mechanism which explains continental drift (that Wegener was missing) is called...
Plate tectonics
Plate movement
Plate technics
Plate relocation
9
A convergent plate boundary is considered a...
Conservative Boundary
Constructive Boundary
Destroyer Boundary
Destructive Boundary
10
Subduction is the...
Action where plates spread apart
Action where plates buckle
Action where one plate moves underneath another plate
11
The inner core is under extreme heat and pressure, so it is "solid" iron and nickel.
False
True
12
The Earth's lithosphere is composed of (BLANK) and (BLANK).
Crust/Upper-most Mantle
Crust/Upper-most Core
Asthenosphere/Lithosphere
Upper-most Mantle/Core
13
Convection cells circulate mantle material from areas close to the core to the crust and back.
True
False
14
Tectonic plates move on the...
Crust
Lithosphere
Asthenosphere
Outer Core
15
Which theory uses Pangaea as a piece of supportive evidence?
Plate Tectonics
Continental Drift Theory
Continental Swim Theory
The Pangaea Effect
16
What type of evidence did Alfred Wegener use to support his Continental Drift Theory?
Rock Clues
Puzzle like fit of the continents
Fossil Clues
All of the above
