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What happens at a divergent plate boundary?
Plates disapear
Plates come together
Plates move apart
One plate slides under the other
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What occurs at a subduction zone?
The ocean plate moves under the continental plate to recycle seafloor.
Subtraction problems
new seafloor is created
Mountains fall into the sea
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If two continents are moving apart what type of boundary is it?
Convergent plate boundary
Subduction
Divergent plate boundary
Transform plate boundary
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When two continental plates collide they cause what to form?
Valleys
Down drafts
Mountains
Tectonic Plates
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What type of fault is responsible for most earthquakes?
Transform plate boundaries
San Andreas
Convergent palet boundaries
Divergent plate boundaries
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Who discovered continental drift?
Albert Einstein
James Watson
Bill Nye
Alfred Wegener
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What happens at transform boundaries?
Plates move apart
Plates are recycled
Plates crash into each other
Plates slide past each other
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What happens at a convergent plate boundary?
Plates move apart
Plates move towards each other
None are correct
Volcanoes form
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What causes the Earth's plates to move?
Convection Currents
Fossil formation
Boiling
Weathering
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Why are the Himalayas getting taller?
India is smashing into Asia
Asia is moving under India
India is falling apart
The two continents are separating
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The ring of fire is responsible for causing many
both earthquakes and volcanoes
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Hurricanes
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What is a Volcano
A break or fracture in the ground that occurs when Eath's plates move
A plate boundary where two plates slide past each other
A current caused by the rising of heated magma
A vent or fissure in the Earth's surface through which magma is expelled
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What happens at a transform plate boundary?
Plates travel past each other side by side
Plates disappear
Volcanoes
Plate subduction
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Where are the youngest rocks found under the ocean?
Faults
Mid oceanic ridges
Mid oceanic trench
Subduction Zones
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What occurs at a fault?
Earthquakes
Earth plates meet
Blame is assigned.
Both Earthquakes and where Earth's plates meet
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What is the process of warm liquids rising while cooler liquids sink?
Boiling
Subduction
Convection
Uplift
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What discovery helped scientists prove the theory of continental drift?
Bill Nye
Global warming
Ocean currents
Mid oceanic ridges and trenches
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What is the name of the supercontinent that existed around 350 million years ago?
Panama
Pangea
Euroasia
United States
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What is a mid-oceanic ridge?
A long valley found under the ocean
an undersea area where new seafloor comes from magma
An area where oceanic plates are recycled
Where volcanoes occur
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Why can scientists find tropical animal and plant fossils in Antarctica?
It was once colder
They were dropped by aliens
Antarctica was once further south
Antarctica once was farther north because of continental drift
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Starting from the outside of the Earth and moving to the center what is the correct order of Earth's layers?
Crust, Mantle, Outer Core, Inner Core
Mantle, Crust, Core
Core, Mantle, Outer Core, Inner Core
Crust, Core , Mantle
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What happens at a Convergent plate boundary?
Plates move apart
None are correct
Plates move together
Plates slide past each other
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What helped Alfred Wegener come up with his hypothesis of continental drift?
Mountain Ranges
Continents fit together like puzzle pieces
All of the above
Fossils
