Unit 7 Changing Landforms

What can form at an ocean-ridge?

• Volcano

• Folded Mountain

• Trench

• Arc Islands

Which type of plate boundary is the San Andreas Fault (California)?

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Transform

The Himalayan Mountains are constantly increasing in elevation because -

• plates are sliding past one another.

• plates are diverging.

• plates are converging.

What is responsible for the movement of tectonic plates?

• Earth's rotation

• Convection currents

• Erosion

• Weathering

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Why is the Juan de Fuca plate subducting under the North American plate?

• The ocean plate is more dense.

• The continental plate in thicker.

• The magma melts the continental plate.

• The ocean is erodes away the coastline.

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Harry Hess is responsible for which of the following?

• Sea-floor spreading

• Reverse magnetism

• Pangea (Supercontinent)

Which piece of evidence was missing from Wegener's theory?

• Similar rocks are found in mountains in North America and the British Isles.

• Continents fit together like puzzle pieces.

• Matching fossils can be found on different continents.

• Convection currents move the plates in Earth's crust

An erupting volcano in the ocean can eventually form -

• an island.

• a continental volcano.

• an ocean trench.

• a river valley.

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The inner core of Earth is made of -

• solid rock.

• solid iron and nickel.

• liquid iron and nickel.

• hot gases.

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The diagram supports which piece of evidence used by Wegener?

• The animals in Pangea were of the same species.

• Most fossils are found on one continent.

• All fossils were formed 65 million years ago.

• The same type of fossil is found on different continents.

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