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Continental drift
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This is a quiz on Continental drift.
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What is the real name for earth?
Gaia
Earth
Selachimorpha
Terra
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why do earthquakes occur?
plate tectonics shift
the core of the earth starts to spin
there is no cause
there is no cause
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why was Pangaea broken apart?
movement of earths tectonic plates
the meteor that destroyed the dinosaurs
earthquakes
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Why did they reject Wegner's idea?
failed to find reasonable evidence.
to advanced for his time
could not explain what it was
couldn't find the cause of continental drift
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what type of of boundary is in the Mariana islands?
transform boundary
divergent boundary
convergent boundary
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Who was the creator of the Continental Drift theory?
Mike Wegener
Alfred Wegener
Bill Wegner
Alfred Hitchcock
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what type of boundary is in the African rift valley?
convergent boundary
transform boundary
divergent boundary
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what causes earths tectonic plates to move?
intense heat in the Earth's core causes molten rocks to move
because the water shifts
the earths atmosphere
because they want to
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what are mid-ocean ridges?
a divergent boundary along the floor of the Atlantic ocean
a convergent boundary along the floor of the Atlantic ocean
a transform boundary along the floor of the Atlantic ocean
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what are the internal layers of the Earth?
crust,mantle and inner core
crust,mantle,outer and inner core
crust and outer core
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what type of boundary is in the Andes Mountain?
convergent boundary
transform boundary
divergent boundary
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What is the original name for the supercontinent of our current day continents put together?
Pangea
Panera
Pandora
Pangaea
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what layer of earth has the tectonic plates?
the outer core
the crust
the inner core
the mantle
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What are the three types of tectonic plates?
convergent and divergent boundaries
only convergent boundries
convergent divergent and transform tectonic boundries
convergent divergent transform and assemble boundaries
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what happens when two plates collide?
thunder storms
tsunamis
tornadoes
mountain ranges form
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how many major plates are there?
7
6
8
10
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when was Pangaea made
260 million years ago
100 million years ago
270 million years ago
280 millions years ago
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What is Pangaea?
Chicken wing
A piece of land
Normal contient
A super contient
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What is evidence Pangaea existed?
The same water is there
earthquakes
Using satellites
That the same fossils are found some where else
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what was the hypothesis continental drift?
continents drift because of the water
continents had once been joined, over time had drifted apart
The ice age rat did it
Because the core exploded
