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Duplicate of Plate Tectonics
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1
What type of plate boundary has plates slide past one another?
plate tectonics
convergent plate boundary
divergent plate boundary
transform plate boundary
2
Wegener used evidence from land features, fossils, and climate to support his theory.
True
False
3
What type of plate boundary has plates separate from one another?
convergent plate boundary
transform plate boundary
divergent plate boundary
plate boundary
4
What type of boundary can form earthquakes?
all of the above
transform
convergent
divergent
5
Where does seafloor spreading happen?
where oceanic crust meets continental crust
where the volcanoes are
at mid ocean ridges where tectonic plates meet
where continents meet
6
From what type of boundary does a rift valley form?
divergent
convergent
transform
7
Wegener noticed that which two continents had similar mountain ranges?
Antarctica and Australia
Africa and Asia
South America and Africa
North America and Europe
8
True or False: Ocean currents drive Earth's plates.
True
False
9
The San Andres Fault is an example of what type of boundary?
divergent
convergent
transform
10
What is the name of the theory that states that Earth's plates are in slow, constant motion?
plate tectonics
divergent plate boundary
magnetic reversal
continental drift
11
Where does seafloor spreading take place?
transform boundaries
convergent boundaries
oceanic volcanoes
divergent boundaries
12
What is the name of the process that creates new oceanic crust at a mid ocean ridges?
sea floor spreading
continental drift
mid ocean ridge
normal polarity
13
True or False: As a continent moves towards the north or south poles its climate gets hotter.
True
False
14
What is the motion of the Earth's plates like?
slow and in stages
fast and in stages
fast and constant
slow and constant
15
Which feature forms at a Continental-Continental Convergent boundary?
trench
mid-ocean ridge
mountain range
rift valley
16
From what type of boundary does a deep ocean trench form?
convergent
divergent
transform
17
True or False: A rift valley forms where plates diverge on land.
False
True
18
What theory states that all continents were once joined together and have drifted apart?
sea floor spreading
Pangaea
wagner
continental drift
19
What type of plate boundary has plates collide?
divergent plate boundary
transform plate boundary
plate tectonics
convergent plate boundary
20
Which of these was NOT one of the evidences that Wegener used to defend his theory?
fossil evidence
climate evidence
mountain evidence
underwater volcanoes evidence
21
True or False: Oceanic drift is the idea that the continents slowly moved over Earth's surface.
False
True
22
What was the name of the supercontinent called?
north america
continental drift
pangaea
fossil