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What land feature is formed when an oceanic and oceanic plate converge?
New sea floor
Volcanic Island
Volcano on land
Fault
2
During subduction, what type of plate goes under the other?
The plate that is LESS dense
The plate that is MORE dense
3
Directly above the asthenosphere is this layer:
Asthenosphere
Lithosphere
4
The follwing is an example of what type of plate boundary:
Convergent
Divergent
Transform
5
What are the 3 major plate boundaries?
Oceanic, Transform, Continental
Transform, Convergent, Divergent
Transform, Divergent, Continental
Oceanic, Continental, Land
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What oceanic feature is formed with 2 divergent oceanic plate boundaries?
Volcanic islands
Volcanoes
New sea floor
7
The follwing is an example of what type of plate boundary:
Convergent
Divergent
Transform
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What causes faults?
Tranform plate boundaries
Convergent plate boundaries
Divergent plate boundaries
9
What is the formula for Density?
D= M/V
D= V/M
D= M X V
D= V X M
10
When you have a continental plate and an oceanic plate converging, which plate will subduct?
The oceanic plate
The continental plate
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For Igneous rock to form in the rock cycle, rock must be:
Compacted and cemented
Slightly heated
Changed chemically
Melted and then cooled
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Which layer of Earth is the hottest?
The Inner Core
The crust
The Mantle
The Outer Core
13
Wegner found all of these pieces of evidence to support continental drift EXCEPT:
Dinosaur and Plant fossils in different countries
Found coal deposits in climates that couldn't house coal
Took pictures of the bottom of the ocean and found ridges
Continents seemed to fit like a jigsaw puzzle
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How do metamorphic rocks form?
Through compaction and cementation
Through heat and pressure
Through melting after cooling
15
Scientists think that convection currents flow in Earth's:
Lithosphere
Asthenosphere
Continents
Inner Core
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How do Igneous rocks form?
Through heat and pressure
Through melting after cooling
Through compaction and cementation
17
Which layer of Earth is solid with plasticity?
The crust
The asthenosphere (upper mantle)
The lower part of the mantle
18
What land feature is formed when 2 continental plates converge?
Volcano
New sea floor
Mountain range
Volcanic island
19
How do sedimentary rocks form?
Through heat and pressure
Through compaction and cementation
Through melting after cooling
20
What type of boundary can cause land volcanoes?
Oceanic-Continental Convergent Boundary
Oceanic-Oceanic Convergent Boundary
Oceanic-Contiental Transform Boundary
Continental-Continental Convergent Boundary
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What is subduction?
When 2 plates come together and neither go under
When 2 plates come together and both go under
When one plate moves underneath another plate
When one plate slides past another plate
22
Order the following words from smallest to largest: Atoms, Minerals, Rocks, Elements
elements, atoms, rocks, minerals
atoms, elements, minerals, rocks
atoms, minerals, elements, rocks
rocks, minerals, elements, atoms
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T/F: Each major group of rocks follows ONLY ONE PATHWAY in the rock cycle:
False
True
24
Mountains are broken down by all of the following except:
Water
Wind
Ice
Volcanoes
25
Which is more dense, oceanic or continental crust?
Coninental crust
Oceanic crust
26
Who was the famous German who coined the term "Pangea?"
Issac Newton
Alexander Du Toit
Galileo Galilei
Alfred Wegner
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When 2 oceanic plates are converging, which plate will subduct under the other plate?
The older oceanic plate
The younger oceanic plate
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The follwing is an example of what type of plate boundary:
Divergent
Convergent
Transform
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The process by which sediment settles after wind or water carries it is:
Erosion
Cementation
Deposition
Compaction
