Plate Tectonics Video Clip & Questions

Who proposed the idea of the supercontinent Pangea?

• Tim

• Victor

• Harry Hess

• Alfred Wegner

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What is the name of the mountain range running 10,000 miles along the ocean floor?

• Pacific Sea floor

• Ring of Fire

• Himalayas

• Mid-Atlantic Ridge

What is the process called when new seafloor is forming at the Ridge and spreading outward?

• Plate collision

• Seafloor spreading

• Volcanic eruption

• Rock cycle

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What is the name of the rigid layer of solid rock on the Earth's surface?

• Mantle

• Crust

• Core

• Lithosphere

Where is the seismic activity greatest?

• At transform boundaries

• At convergent boundaries

• At subduction zones

• At divergent boundaries

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What drives the constant transformation of our planet's surface?

• Plate tectonics

• Seafloor spreading

• Volcanic activity

• Rock cycle

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What is the name of the chain of volcanoes where dense sedimentary rock is subducted and transformed into metamorphic rock?

• Ring of Fire

• Himalayas

• Mid-Atlantic Ridge

• Pacific Sea floor

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What happens when two continental plates converge?

• Mountain ranges are formed

• Volcanic eruptions occur

• Seafloor spreading

• Subduction occurs

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What is the driving force behind the rock cycle?

• Plate tectonics

• Volcanic activity

• Seafloor spreading

• Convection currents

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