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Sea floor spreading is a....
Process
Feature
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Earthquakes and volcanoes happen why?
drilling for oil
plates meet and bump against each other
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Smart people think the movement of Earths plates happens where and how?
convection currents in the mantle
convection currents in the crust
convection currents in the core
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What do these prove: fossils, folded mountains, glacier scratches, fit of continents
theory of gravity
continental drift theory
convection currents in mantle
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Where do smart people think convection currents flow?
'merica
Mantle
Crust
Core
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Which is denser..oceanic or continental crust?
oceanic
continental
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How do we know the rocks far away from mid ocean ridges are older than the ones near it?
the rocks aren't as weathered
they have eroded a lot
drilling for rock samples
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What is Pangea?
all you can eat buffet in Buford
a nasty skin infectino
supercontinent-one landmass
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Generally, what does "divergent" mean?
pulling apart
coming together
neither
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The idea that the lithosphere is in constant motion is called what?
Plate Tetonics
Subduction
Pangea
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Why did most people reject our old friend Wegener and his ideas?
He was too noisy in libraries
He couldn't explain why plates moved
He had poor taste in music
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Generally, what does "convergent" mean?
pulling apart
neither
coming together
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What is formed at divergent plate boundaries in the ocean?
pangea
mid ocean ridge
subduction zones
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Where does a rift valley form?
At a transform boundary
At a convergent boundary
At a divergent boundary
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When ocean floor sinks beneath a trench and back to the mantle...what is that?
subduction zone
convection current
conveyor belt
