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Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics
Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics
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A review of a unit on Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics.
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The name of the supercontinent that existed millions of years ago.
Panosphere
Pangea
asthenosphere
lithosphere
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Made up of the crust and top part of the mantle. Makes up the plates.
Pangea
Lithosphere
Transform
Asthenosphere
3
Plate boundary where two plates move away from each other.
Convergent
Divergent
Convection
Transform
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Process where hot magma rises, cools, then sinks, due to differences in density.
Radiation
Convection
Conduction
Convergent
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Force that pushes outward against the space around it.
gravity
pressure
convection
conduction
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Which type of boundary produces island arcs, trenches, earthquakes, and subduction zones?
convergent land vs land
divergent
convergent land vs ocean
convergent ocean vs ocean
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Plate boundary where two plates scrape against each other.
Convergent
Divergent
Convection
Transform
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Which of the following IS created at Divergent boundary?
earthquakes
mountains
Mid-ocean ridges
subduction zone
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Which of the following is NOT a driving force for plate movement?
Conduction
Pressure
Convection
Gravity
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Which of the following IS a piece of evidence Harry Hess gave in support of seafloor spreading?
Age of Ocean Rocks
Climate
Fossil
Magnetic Striping
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Theory describing how Earth's plates move and what happens when they interact with each other.
Continental drift
Plate tectonics
Pangea
Continental tectonics
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The idea that the world's land masses are slowly moving over time.
seafloor spreading
Pangea
Continental drift
Plate tectonics
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Which of the following is NOT created at a Convergent land vs. land boundary?
mountains
subduction zones
trench
earthquakes
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Who discovered seafloor spreading?
Harry Hess
Alfred Wegener
Alfred Newton
Harry Hector
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Force that pulls objects toward Earth.
Gravity
Density
Pressure
Convection
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A location that is volcanically active even though it is not located near a plate boundary.
lithosphere
divergent
convection
hotspot
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Liquid-like layer under lithosphere that acts like a conveyor belt.
mantle
lithosphere
asthenosphere
crust
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Plate boundary where earths plates collide.
Transform
Convection
Divergent
Convergent
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Long underwater mountain ranges where magma rises up from the mantle.
Seafloor spreading
Mid-ocean ridges
Asthenosphere
Hotspot
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Technology that uses sound waves to determine the sizes and depths of objects.
Sampling
Sea-floor spreading
Satellite
Sonar
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Process where the seafloor slowly grows outward from mid-ocean ridges as new crust is formed.
continental drift
Seafloor spreading
convection
gravity
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Which of the following is NOT one of Alfred's evidences of continental drift?
Mountain
Fossil
Geometric
Age of ocean rocks
