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Plate Boundaries / Continental Drift
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What type of stress happens at a Divergent Boundary?
compression
rarefaction
tension
Shearing
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What type of movement occurs at a Divergent Boundary?
Goes straight down
They move apart
Come together
Slide past each other
3
What mostly happens at a Convergent plate boundary?
Mid- ocean ridges
Rift valleys
earthqakes
Mountains
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What movement happens at a Transform Boundary?
Move apart
Come together
Slide past each other
Goes straight down.
5
What type of movement occurs at a Convergent boundary?
Move apart
Go straight down.
Come together
Slide past each other
6
What was one of the evidence used to explain Continental Drift?
Magnetic fields flipped.
Same fossil on two separate continents.
Same fossil in the same continent.
Magma cools new crust forms.
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Why didn't anybody believe Wegener's theory of Continental Drift?
Didn't have an opinion.
They just didn't believe it.
Had a bunch of facts.
Didn't have evidence.
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What type of stress occurs at a Transform boundary?
Shearing
Compression
Rarefaction
Tension
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Which Boundary form a Mid- Ocean ridge?
Divergent
Convergent
Tansform
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What two separate continents did the find the same fossil?
South America and Africa
Antarctica and Africa
Asia and Africa
South America and Antarctica
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What type of stress occurs at a Convergent Boundary?
Rarefaction
Compression
Tension
Shearing
12
What would form if a divergent boundary happened on the ocean?
Earthqakes
Mid-Ocean Ridge
Rift valleys
Volcanoes
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What forms if a divergent boundary happened on land?
Volcanoes
Mid- Ocean Ridge
Earthquakes
Rift Valleys
14
What is NOT evidence that supports continental drift?
Fit like a puzzle.
Oceans Line up.
Mountain ranges line up
Same fossil on different continents.
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At which boundary would an earthquake likely occur?
Transform
Convergent
Divergent
