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1
What type of rock is pictured below?
Metamorhpic
Igneous
Sedimentary
2
What would have to happen to turn an igneous rock into a metamorphic rock?
weathering
extreme pressure
melting and cooling
heat and pressure
3
Why does ocean crust sink under continental crust at subduction zones?
Ocean crust is thicket
Ocean crust is less dense
Ocean crust is more dense
Ocean crust weighs less
4
What was the biggest problem with Wegener's Continental Drift hypothesis?
He discovered that coastlines fit together
He had no evidence
He couldn't explain HOW the continents moved
He had no claim
5
How do we know the relative age of sedimentary rock layers?
The law of superposition
We guess
We don't
The law of supercalifragalisticexpealidocious
6
What type of rock is pictured below?
Igneous
Sedimentary
Metamorphic
7
What drives the movement of tectonic plates?
Convection currents in the atmosphere
Inertia
Convection currents in the mantle
Centripetal force from the rotation of the earth
8
What type of rock is pictured below?
Metamorphic
Sedimentary
Igneous
9
Which of the following events occurred first?
Humans began migrating to North America
The first egg was laid on land
Trilobites ruled the seas
Dinosaurs went extinct due to a massive asteroid
10
What type of rock is pictured below?
Metamorphic
Igneous
Sedimentary