Plate tectonics and rock cycle

Where are tectonic plates located?

• outer core

• lithosphere

• asthenosphere

• mesosphere

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Paleontologists often find fossils of the same species on different continents. Many arguments provide evidence for Pangaea. Which does not?

• Many of these organisms could not have traveled across the oceans to where continents are today.

• Large hurricanes picked up carcasses of animals and carried them.

• Most continents fit together like a puzzle.

• Convection currents cause the lithosphere to move like a conveyor belt moving the continents around.

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What process drives the movement of tectonic plates?

• movement of ocean currents

• gravitational pull of the moon

• convection currents in the mantle

• magnetic field of the Earth

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Which of the following best describes why identical fossils have been found in South America and Africa?

• animals could swim the Atlantic

• hurricanes blew them over

• The continents were once joined as one landmass.

• Nomads took them there.

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Plate tectonics is the scientific theory describing the large-scale motion of large plates and the movements of a number of smaller plates of the Earth's surface.

• true

• false

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What theory explains how the plates of the Earth are continually moving?

• Continental Drift Theory

• Theory of Evolution

• Plate Tectonic Theory

• Big Bang Theory

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What type of plate boundary has plates moving apart?

• divergent

• transform

• convergent

What type of plate boundary has plates crashing into each other?

• divergent

• transform

• convergent

When plates slide past each other in opposite direction, it is which type of boundary?

• divergent

• convergent

• transform

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Which events are most common along tectonic plate boundaries?

• earthquakes and erosion

• hurricanes and tsunamis

• earthquakes and volcanoes

• tidal waves and volcanoes

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