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Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics
Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics
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A review of a unit on Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics.
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Which type of boundary produces island arcs, trenches, earthquakes, and subduction zones?
divergent
convergent ocean vs ocean
convergent land vs land
convergent land vs ocean
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Plate boundary where earths plates collide.
Convergent
Transform
Convection
Divergent
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Force that pulls objects toward Earth.
Pressure
Gravity
Convection
Density
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Which of the following is NOT a driving force for plate movement?
Conduction
Convection
Pressure
Gravity
5
Made up of the crust and top part of the mantle. Makes up the plates.
Asthenosphere
Pangea
Transform
Lithosphere
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A location that is volcanically active even though it is not located near a plate boundary.
divergent
convection
hotspot
lithosphere
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The idea that the world's land masses are slowly moving over time.
Pangea
Plate tectonics
Continental drift
seafloor spreading
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Which of the following is NOT created at a Convergent land vs. land boundary?
subduction zones
trench
earthquakes
mountains
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Which of the following is NOT one of Alfred's evidences of continental drift?
Mountain
Age of ocean rocks
Fossil
Geometric
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Process where hot magma rises, cools, then sinks, due to differences in density.
Convergent
Radiation
Convection
Conduction
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Plate boundary where two plates scrape against each other.
Transform
Divergent
Convergent
Convection
12
The name of the supercontinent that existed millions of years ago.
Pangea
Panosphere
asthenosphere
lithosphere
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Theory describing how Earth's plates move and what happens when they interact with each other.
Continental drift
Plate tectonics
Continental tectonics
Pangea
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Liquid-like layer under lithosphere that acts like a conveyor belt.
asthenosphere
crust
mantle
lithosphere
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Technology that uses sound waves to determine the sizes and depths of objects.
Sampling
Sea-floor spreading
Sonar
Satellite
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Long underwater mountain ranges where magma rises up from the mantle.
Asthenosphere
Mid-ocean ridges
Hotspot
Seafloor spreading
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Which of the following IS created at Divergent boundary?
Mid-ocean ridges
earthquakes
mountains
subduction zone
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Plate boundary where two plates move away from each other.
Divergent
Convergent
Transform
Convection
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Force that pushes outward against the space around it.
convection
conduction
gravity
pressure
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Process where the seafloor slowly grows outward from mid-ocean ridges as new crust is formed.
convection
gravity
continental drift
Seafloor spreading
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Who discovered seafloor spreading?
Alfred Wegener
Harry Hector
Harry Hess
Alfred Newton
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Which of the following IS a piece of evidence Harry Hess gave in support of seafloor spreading?
Magnetic Striping
Climate
Fossil
Age of Ocean Rocks
