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Which is not a type of marine sediment?
Biogenous
Heterogenous
Cosmogenous
Hydrogenous
2
Which seafloor feature is labeled "H"?
Seamount
Mid-Ocean ridge
Trench
Slope
3
What type of seafloor feature is "E"?
Volcano
Ridge
Seamount
Guyot
4
What is the name of the ocean located at number 10 on the map?
Southern
Atlantic
Indian
Antartic
5
Plates move a few centimeters a year because of the movement of magma beneath them.
True
False
6
Salt deposits and limestone formation found on different continents support what theory?
Continental Drift
Plate Tectonics
Seafloor Spreading
Climate Change
7
Shearing describes this type of boundary.
Divergent
Convection
Convergent
Transform
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What drives convection currents in the Earth?
Heat from the mantle
Magma
Tides
Seafloor Spreading
9
What do continental plates float on?
Outer core
Inner core
Asthenosphere
Lithosphere
10
What is used in bathymetry to map underwater landforms?
Topography
Submarines
Drills
Sonar
11
What is the process by which sediments, soil, and rocks are added to a landform or land mass?
Erosion
Deposition
Weathering
Convection
12
Who created the Continental Drift Theory?
Wilmington
Wayne
Wegener
Williams
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What is formed by divergent boundaries?
Rift valleys
All of these
Mid-Ocean Ridges
Mountains
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What does this picture show?
Global Warming
Seafloor Spreading
Volcano
Continental Drift
15
How many oceans can be found on Earth?
5
8
7
4
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What are the lines that are to the left and the right of the Prime Meridian called?
longitude
latitude
equator
lines
17
What can occur at transform boundaries?
Earthquakes
Mountains
Rift valleys
Volcanes
18
How many continents are there?
6
8
7
5
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Which continent is found at number 5 on the map?
North America
Europe
Asia
Africa
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What is "A"?
Atolls
Ridge
Rift valley
Submarine canyon
21
What type of boundary is this?
Transform
Divergent
Tension
Convergent
22
Which of these is evidence of Seafloor Spreading?
Marine life
Fossils
Salt water samples
Magnetometer Data
23
What is the name of this super continent that broke up over time?
Laurasia
Gondwana
Eurasia
Pangea
24
How much of Earth's total surface is land mass?
97
56.5
36.4
29.2
25
What has occurred in the picture?
Convergent boundaries
Transform boundaries
Hot spots
Convection currents
26
Continental crust is denser, thinner, and younger than oceanic crust.
True
False
27
Label the layers of the Earth from interior to exterior.
inner core, outer core, mantle, and crust
crust, inner core, outer core, mantle
outer core, mantle, inner core, crust
mantle, crust, inner core, outer core
