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Plate Boundaries, Tectonic Plates, and Natural Disasters
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What was Alfred Wegener's theory
about the continents spreading apart
called?
Plate Tectonics Theory
Continental Drift
Pangea
Sea Floor Spreading
2
What land form is formed at a divergent boundary
faults
earthquakes
Mid ocean ridges
Mountains
3
What adds more crust to the sea floor
Tectonic plates
Trenches
Sea floor spreading
Convection currents
4
What Boundary does this image represent?
Convergent
Transform
Sliding Past
Divergent
5
What is the process of oceanic crust colliding with continental crust and falling under it?
Divergent
Subduction
Convergent
Transform
6
What land form is created at a convergent boundary?
Faults
Mountains
Rift valley
Mid ocean ridges
7
What land form is created from a Transform Boundary?
Mountain Ranges
Mid-Ocean-Ridges
Earthquakes
Faults
8
What is the Liquid Layer of the Earth called?
Lithosphere
Inner Core
Outer Core
Plate Tectonics
9
What is a depression in the sea floor which is a result of subduction
Rift valley
Trench
Sea floor spreading
Tectonic plates
10
who devolved the theory of sea floor spreading
Thomas Edison
Albert Einstien
Harry Hess
Alfred Wegener
11
What was one of Wegeners supporting ideas for the continental drift theory.
The new sea floor between the continents
The mountain ranges in each continent
South America and Africa fit like puzzle pieces.
The volcanoes formed in the continents
12
What does the Continental drift Theory explain?
The Plate boundaries
The different layers of earth
How the continents moved
How oceans were expanded
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What is a real world example of a convergent boundary?
Mid-Atlantic-Ridge
Alpine Fault
Himalayas
San Andreas Fault
