Unit 2 Plate Motion Chapter 1 Quiz

True or False: The mesosaurus fossils were/are primarily found on two separate continents.

• True

• False

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True or False: The Mesosaurus fossils' were discovered on South Africa and North America

• True

• False

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True or false: Scientists use fossils to understand what the earth was like hundred of thousands of years ago or more.

• True

• False

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True or False: Fossils are not like time capsules

• True

• False

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True or False: One way a scientists learn more about the earth's outer layer (lithosphere and crust) they use large drills to collect samples.

• True

• False

Earth's outer-layer is also known as the ________

One of the very large sections of hard, solid rock that make up the Earth's outer layer is called a _____

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Earth's outer layer is divided into sections called ______

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Something we observe to be similar over and over again is called a

• Similarity

• Imitation

• pattern

• fossil

Looking at this map, what is the of the name of the plate boundary that causes the lithosphere to move away from each other? (the same plate boundary how the mesosaurus fossils' moved away from each other).

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