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Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics
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Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics
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The layer of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks that forms the continents
Steelers
Where we live
Continental Crust
Mountains
2
The earth’s outer core is
liquid
solid
3
An area in the Pacific Ocean where a large number of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur:
Ring of Fire
Volcanic Ring
Circle of Fire
Fire Storm
4
Who was drafted number 1 over all in the NFL Draft in 2014
Jadeveon Clowney
Sammy Watkins
Khalil Mack
Blake Bortles
5
Attransform boundaries movement between the plates is
towardsone another
horizontal, with platesmoving past one another
awayfrom one another
6
The material thatconstitutes the earth’s surface plates is the
mesosphere
asthenosphere
lithosphere
thermosphere
7
The theory that Earth's outer shell is divided into several plates that glide over the mantle
Plate Tectonics
Density Functional Theory
Steel Curtain Theory
Continental Drift
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What is in the picture?
Convergent
Transform
Divergent
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Convergent, Divergent, Transformative
Tectonic Crust
Continental Realtionships
Rooney Effect
Plate Boundary
10
The continental crust is mostly composed of this material
Granite
Lava
Basalt
Magma
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The process where a tectonic plate moves under another tectonic plate and sinks into the mantle
Mounting
Over-Taking
Subduction
Reduction
12
The originator of the theory of continental drift
Ben Roethlisberger
Albert Einstein
Charles Darwin
Alfred Wegene
13
What is in the picture?
Convergent
Divergent
Transform
14
Possible cause for plate movements include:
convectioncurrents in the mantle
plumes
noneof above
hotspots
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What is this picture?
Transform Fault
Divergent Boundary
Heinz Field
Convergent Boundary
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Newocean floor is created
at transform faults
atconvergent boundaries
atdivergent boundaries
at oceanic ridges
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TheSan Andreas fault zone in California is an example of ________ plate boundary
convergent
transform
divergent
none of above
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A rise of the ocean floor occurs when convection currents rise in the mantle beneath the crust
Oceanic Ridges
Mountains
Plate Boundary
Continental Drift
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What is in the picture?
Transform
Convergent
Divergent