Geology - Plate Tectonics

The scientific theory that the Earth's crust is made of moving plates.

• quakes
• seismic
• plate tectonics
• rotation

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What is Pangaea?

• A German Scientist
• the name of the supercontinent that existed millions of years ago
• continental drift
• an ancient fossil

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Name the boundary.

• convergent boundary
• divergent boundary
• transform boundary
• segment boundary

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Name the boundary.

• convergent boundary
• divergent boundary
• transform boundary
• sergent boundary

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Name the boundary

• convergent boundary
• divergent boundary
• transform boundary
• sergent boundary

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What movement causes an ocean rift?

• divergent boundary
• transform boundary

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What boundary creates mountains?

• convergent
• divergent
• transform
• fast

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Which scientist is credited with the Theory of Plate Tectonics (modern version of the Theory of Continental Drift)?

• Alfred Wegener

• Charles Darwin

• Robert Hooke

• Charles Lyell

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What is geology?

• the study of rocks

• the study of history

• the study of maps

• the study of earth

Which theory does this best describe: The earth's lithosphere is split into many pieces that are in constant motion due to convection currents.

• Continental Drift

• Plate Tectonics

• Sea Floor Spreading

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