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Continental Drift & Plate Tectonics
Continental Drift & Plate Tectonics
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Which is NOT evidence that supports continental drift?
Fossils
Climate
Landforms
Convection Currents
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Convergent boundaries move ______________ each other.
away from
in hover mode over
towards
parallel to
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This theory suggests that the earth's crust is broken up into sections:
Plate Tectonics
Convection Currents
Continental Drift
Mantle Sectionism
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This is where one plate ends and the other begins
Zones
Subduction Zones
Seduction Zones
Boundary
5
The Atlantic Ocean is getting
hotter
colder
smaller
bigger
6
What seafloor feature is associated with the subduction zone?
Shelf
Mid Ocean Ridge
Trench
Sea Valley
7
Magma moves the earth's plates through the forces caused by
Axial rotation
Volcanic Action
Convection Currents
Volcanic Eruptions
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Sea floor is created at this type of boundary:
Subduction
Divergent
Convergent
Transform
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Denser ocean crust forced below less dense continental crust
Seduction Zone
Abduction Zone
Subduction Zone
Segmented Zone
10
What sea floor feature is associated with the divergent zone?
Continental Slope
Deep Sea Trench
Sea Mountains
Mid-ocean ridge
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Subduction zone occurs at what kind of boundary?
Convergent
Transform
Divergent
Super collider
12
Forms when two continental plates collides
rainbows
mountains
glaciar
trench
13
Alfred Wagner proposed what theory?
Pangaea Separation
Pangaea Collision
Continental Drift
Plate Tectonics
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The Pacific ocean is getting
hotter
bigger
colder
smaller
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What is the continental drift?
observation of how continents were once connected
wind pushing a continent
Explains how Pangaea was created
how one continent floats on another
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Convection is the transfer of heat in
solids
liquids
air
fluids
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Divergent boundaries move ______________ each other.
parallel to
in hover mode over
away from
towards
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Transform boundaries move ______________ each other.
away from
parallel to
towards
in hover mode over