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Plate Tectonics
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A quiz for High School Earth Science
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For tectonic plates, convection currents within Earth's mantle...
Is what causes the plates to stop
Are very cold
Come from outer space
Is what causes the plates to move
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Earthquakes...
Usually happen in the center of tectonic plates
Usually happen during "earthquake weather"
Usually happen at tectonic plate boundaries
Usually happen at night
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The San Andreas Fault separates which two tectonic plates?
Antarctic and Nazca
African and Arabian
Sierra Nevada and Himalayan
North American and Pacific
4
What is often created at Convergent Plate boundaries?
Rivers
Mid-Ocean Ridges
Oceanic trenches
The San Andreas Fault
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1. Divergent Plate Boundaries can usually be found...
On the tops of mountains
At the bottom of oceans
In the center of a tectonic plate
In the sky
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The San Andreas Fault...
Is very short
Makes volcanoes
Is located in Japan
Produces earthquakes
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Pangea was...
A super huge continent
A super huge heavy metal band
A super huge tectonic plate
A super huge mountain
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Wegener could NOT prove Continental Drift because.
He was wrong about fossil evidence
He was wrong about continents matching as puzzle pieces
He could not explain HOW continents could move
He was wrong about Continental Drift
