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Duplicate of Plate Tectonics
Duplicate of Plate Tectonics
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This type of crust is the most dense and thinnest:
Core Crust
Mantle Crust
Continental Crust
Oceanic Crust
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Tectonic Plates are made of this:
Lithosphere
Crust
Mantle
Asthenosphere
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Mountain Ranges like the Himalayas (Mt. Everest) are made at this type of boundary:
Continental-Oceanic Convergent
Continental-Continental Convergent
Divergent
Transform
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This layer is most dense:
Crust
Inner Core
Mantle
Outer Core
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This type of crust is least dense and thickest:
Continental Crust
Mantle Crust
Core Crust
Oceanic Crust
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This is the outermost layer of the Earth:
Crust
Inner Core
Outer Core
Mantle
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Convection Currents are found in this layer:
Outer Core
Inner Core
Crust
Mantle
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When two plates are moving toward each other, it is this type of boundary:
Transform
Convergent
Divergent
Plastic
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The Earth has this many layers:
2
4
8
6
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The arguments against the Continental Drift Hypothesis were:
Island Hopping
Land Bridges
No one could explain how the continents move.
Rafting
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The Continental Drift Hypothesis was first proposed by:
Alfred Wegener
Isaac Newton
Mr. Gross
Albert Einstein
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The idea that the continents are drifting around on Earth's surface was first called the:
Continental Drift Hypothesis
Continental Drift Theory
Drifting Earth Hypothesis
Wandering Earth Theory
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The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is this type of boudary:
Moonish
Convergent
Transform
Divergent
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This location sits on a hot spot:
Hawaii
Yellowstone National Park
California
Maine
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This is the inner-most layer of the Earth:
Inner Crust
Mantle
Outer Core
Inner Core
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This layer is least dense:
Crust
Outer Core
Inner Core
Mantle
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This part of the upper mantle combines with the crust to make the:
Lithosphere
Mantle
Yellowstone
Asthenosphere
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This layer is made of liquid Iron and Nickel:
Crust
Mantle
Inner Core
Outer Core
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Trenchs are found at this type of boundary:
Divergent
Transform
Continental-Continental Convergent
Continental-Oceanic Convergent
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True or False: The United States is currently moving West.
False
True
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Wegener proposed that the continents were once joined in a large land mass called:
Rodinia
Giant Panda
Largelandmassia
Pangaea
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Rift Valleys are found at this type of boundary:
Transform
Convergent
Saturnalian
Divergent
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Two plates sliding past each other (like in California) is this type of boundary:
Divergent
Excellent
Convergent
Transform