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What discovery helped scientists prove the theory of continental drift?
Mid oceanic ridges and trenches
Ocean currents
Bill Nye
Global warming
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Why can scientists find tropical animal and plant fossils in Antarctica?
It was once colder
Antarctica was once further south
Antarctica once was farther north because of continental drift
They were dropped by aliens
3
The ring of fire is responsible for causing many
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Hurricanes
both earthquakes and volcanoes
4
Why are the Himalayas getting taller?
India is smashing into Asia
India is falling apart
Asia is moving under India
The two continents are separating
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What happens at a divergent plate boundary?
Plates disapear
Plates move apart
Plates come together
One plate slides under the other
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Who discovered continental drift?
James Watson
Alfred Wegener
Bill Nye
Albert Einstein
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What is the name of the supercontinent that existed around 350 million years ago?
Euroasia
Panama
Pangea
United States
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What happens at a Convergent plate boundary?
None are correct
Plates move together
Plates move apart
Plates slide past each other
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What causes the Earth's plates to move?
Boiling
Fossil formation
Convection Currents
Weathering
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If two continents are moving apart what type of boundary is it?
Transform plate boundary
Subduction
Convergent plate boundary
Divergent plate boundary
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Starting from the outside of the Earth and moving to the center what is the correct order of Earth's layers?
Mantle, Crust, Core
Core, Mantle, Outer Core, Inner Core
Crust, Core , Mantle
Crust, Mantle, Outer Core, Inner Core
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What is the process of warm liquids rising while cooler liquids sink?
Boiling
Subduction
Uplift
Convection
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When two continental plates collide they cause what to form?
Down drafts
Mountains
Tectonic Plates
Valleys
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What occurs at a fault?
Earth plates meet
Earthquakes
Both Earthquakes and where Earth's plates meet
Blame is assigned.
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What happens at transform boundaries?
Plates move apart
Plates crash into each other
Plates slide past each other
Plates are recycled
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What is a Volcano
A break or fracture in the ground that occurs when Eath's plates move
A current caused by the rising of heated magma
A plate boundary where two plates slide past each other
A vent or fissure in the Earth's surface through which magma is expelled
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What happens at a convergent plate boundary?
Plates move towards each other
Volcanoes form
Plates move apart
None are correct
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What occurs at a subduction zone?
Mountains fall into the sea
Subtraction problems
new seafloor is created
The ocean plate moves under the continental plate to recycle seafloor.
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Where are the youngest rocks found under the ocean?
Mid oceanic ridges
Subduction Zones
Faults
Mid oceanic trench
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What type of fault is responsible for most earthquakes?
Transform plate boundaries
Divergent plate boundaries
San Andreas
Convergent palet boundaries
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What helped Alfred Wegener come up with his hypothesis of continental drift?
Mountain Ranges
Fossils
Continents fit together like puzzle pieces
All of the above
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What is a mid-oceanic ridge?
an undersea area where new seafloor comes from magma
An area where oceanic plates are recycled
Where volcanoes occur
A long valley found under the ocean
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What happens at a transform plate boundary?
Plate subduction
Plates disappear
Volcanoes
Plates travel past each other side by side
