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1
Which of the following was not evidence for continental drift
South America and Africa seem to fit together
fossils of tropical plant found in the Arctic
same fossil found on continents widely separated by ocean
magnetic stripes on the ocean floor
2
What are formed when two continental plates collide.
Mountain ranges
Volcanoes
Rift valleys
Strike-slip faults
3
The mountain ranges formed by divergent plates spreading
plate tectonics
normal polarity
mid ocean ridge
central sea floor
4
The rigid plates composed of the crust and part of the upper mantle are called the ...
Athenosphere
Lithosphere
Tectonic
Pangea
5
New oceanic crust forms at a mid ocean ridge as old oceanic crust moves away
mid ocean ridge
continental drift
sea floor spreading
normal polarity
6
Happens when two plates slide past one another
convergent plate boundary
transform plate boundary
plate tectonics
divergent plate boundary
7
The hypothesis that continents are in constant motion
continental drift
Pangaea
wagner
sea floor spreading
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The ancient super continent composed of land that forms todays continents
pangaea
north america
continental drift
fossil
9
Happens when two plate collide
plate tectonics
divergent plate boundary
convergent plate boundary
transform plate boundary
10
The theory that earth's surface is made of rock plate that move
divergent plate boundary
plate tectonics
continental drift
magnetic reversal
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Happens when two plate separate
transform plate boundary
plate boundary
convergent plate boundary
divergent plate boundary
12
Active volcanoes are most likely to form at ____.
the center of continents
divergent boundaries
transform boundaries
convergentoceanic–continental boundaries
13
Who developed the idea that the continents slowly move over Earth's surface?
Jacques Cousteau
Albert Einstein
Harry Hess
Alfred Wegener
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The cycle of heating, rising, cooling, and sinking in the Mantle is a
Plate Tectonics
Rift Valley
Convection Current
Continental Drift
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The ____ is (are) anexample of a transform boundary
Himalayas
Appalachian Mountains
Mid-Atlantic Ridge
San Andreas Fault
