Unit 3 - movement of crust

If you found this fossil in your backyard, what could you infer about the land that makes up your backyard?

• The land was once a desert.

• The land was once covered by a glacier.

• The land was once the ocean floor.

• The land was a wooded area.

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The East Pacific Rise and the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge are examples of mountains formed by a ___________ plate boundary.

The _____________ zone on the west coast of North America is responsible for so many earthquakes happening in California.

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Locations with high latitudes have _________ climates than places with low latitudes.

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If a paleontologist found a trace fossil of a footprint, they could determine this about the dinosaur.

• size

• diet

• color

• habitat

You found this tooth in Gainesville, GA and determine it is a megalodon tooth. What does that tell you about Gainesville's past?

• The land was much drier at one time.

• The land was once under a glacier.

• The land was part of the Appalachian mountains.

• The land was once part of the ocean floor.

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The geologic time scale shows that living organisms have _______ over time.

• stayed the same

• changed

• become the same species

• species have not gone extinct

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This is a picture of a ______.

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Alfred Wegener proposed this theory.

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How did the Appalachian Mountains in North America form?

• ocean - ocean convergent boundary

• continent - continent divergent boundary

• continent - ocean convergent boundary

• Continent - continent convergent boundary

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