Chapter 3 A Changing Continent

What are the different types of boundaries found between tectonic plates?

• Transform

• Taraform

• Divergent

• Convection

• Convergent

The theory the Earth's crust is made of large landmasses that continually move.

• Continental drift

• Tectonic plates

• Earth plates

• Plate tectonics

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What happens to the surface at convergent boundaries?

• mountains are created

• valleys are created

• earthquakes

• Don't know

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Alfred Wegener believed that he continents were together, but have broken apart. What was his theory called?

• Continents

• Continental Drift

• Super Continent

• Pangea

What was the name of the super continent that existed 300 million years ago?

• Super continent

• Eurasia

• Pangea

• North America

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Which of the following is not a type of tectonic plate?

• Oceanic crust

• continental crust

• Pangean crust

The ocean becomes smaller at deep ocean ridges

• True

• False

The ocean shrinks from which of the following?

• subduction

• sea-floor spreading

• erosion

• earthquakes

A ocean floor is called a deep ocean trench where the crust bends back into the Earth.

• True

• False

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When tectonic plates come together, it is called a _______ boundary.

• Convergent

• Transform

• Divergent