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How is Earth Changing Review Guide
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1
Fossils are found in ______________ rocks.
Sedimentary rock
Fossil Rock
Metamorphic rock
Igneous rock
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Who developed the Continental Drift Theory?
Alfred Wegener
Newton
Harry Hess
3
Where can you find the Ring of Fire?
Europe
Black Sea
Pacific Ocean
4
Where two plates meet it’s called ________________________________
Continental Drift
Plate tectonics
Plate Boundaries
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What couldn’t Wegner prove about the continents?
How they were together
How they moved apart
How they had fossils
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What is the Theory of Continental Drift?
All the continents were once together and drifted apart
The continents have always been separated but drift together
New continents are continually being created and destroyed.
The layout of the continents is the same today as it has always been
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What drives tectonic plate movement?
coriolis effect
the earth's magnetic core
Gravity
convection in the mantle
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What was the supercontinent called?
Pandas
Pringles
Penguins
Pangaea
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Name this boundary
Convergent
Transformation
Divergent
10
What was evidence of Continental Drift?
Pick 2
a. Earthquake Activity
Identical Fossil Species
Mountain Ranges
Volcanoes erupting
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Earth crust is broken in to ______________________________
It’s not broken
Ridges
Placemats
Plates
12
Name this boundary
Divergent
Convergent
Transformation
13
What do you call the evidence of Wegener's Theory that tells about the remains of an organism that lived long time ago?
Fossils
Bones
Dead things
Ashes
14
In Seafloor Spreading, molten material rises from the mantle and erupts or flows out
along the edges of all the continents
in the deep ocean trenches
along mid-ocean ridges
in the north and south poles
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The law of superposition says:
Old rocks form on top of younger rocks
Rocks change over time
Younger rocks form on top of older rocks
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What are the two types of crust?
a. thick and thick
continental and oceanic
lower and upper
17
During convection, more dense currents _________ and less dense currents _________.
sink, rise
rise, sink
18
Oldest seafloor is found ____________ the mid ocean ridge
Close to
away from