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1
How were the Hawaiian Islands formed?
By hot spots
By transform boundaries
By convergent boundaries
By earthquakes
2
Seafloor spreading is an example of what type of plate movement?
Divergent
Convergent (Oceanic to Continental)
Transform
Convergent (Continental to Continental)
3
What was the original supercontinent called?
Pangea
Megosphere
America
Uberland
4
What type of formations do convergent continental to continental boundaries create?
Oceanic mountain ranges
Continental mountain ranges
Canyons
Earthquakes
5
What do transform boundaries create?
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Continents
Mountains
6
What type of plate movement does the diagram represent?
<div>Convergent (Oceanic to Continental)</div>
Convergent (Continental to Continental)
Divergent
Transform
7
Who is considered to be the father of the theory of plate tectonics?
Albert Einstein
Edwin Hubble
Alfred Wegener
Galileo Galilei
8
Why was Wegener criticized for his theory of the continents moving apart?
All of the other 3 answers are right.
He was a meterologist.
Continents don't float.
He couldn't prove how it happened.
9
What type of plate movement does the diagram represent?
Convergent (Continental to Continental)
Divergent
Convergent (oceanic to continental)
Transform
10
What type of plate movement does the diagram represent?
Transform
Convergent (oceanic to continental)
Convergent (continental to continental)
Divergent