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- 1. Multiple Choice
The convergence of two CONTINENTAL plates will produce ___.island arcsrift valleysfolded mountainstrenches - 2. Multiple ChoiceWhich statement best describes why S-Waves are NOT recorded by seismographs in certain areas?Seismographs do not record s-waves.S-waves travel in a different direction than p-waves.The earthquake was not strong enough to produce s-waves.The s-waves are stopped by the liquid outer core.
- 3. Multiple ChoiceThe BEST evidence that continents were once connected is that they have matching ___.weather, fossils, and rock typesrock types, fossils, and coastlinescoastlines, weather, and rock typesfossils, coastlines, and weather
- 4. Multiple ChoiceAs the velocity of a stream DECREASES, which factor will likely INCREASE?erosion of the stream bankdeposition of the material in the streamthe amount of material carried downstreamthe size of the particles carried downstream
- 5. Multiple ChoiceWhich is the MOST responsible for the formation of new crust at plate boundaries?continent to continent convergencerising magma at divergent boundariestectonic plates sliding past one anothersubduction of one tectonic plate under another
- 6. Multiple ChoiceIf the African Plate continues to move toward the Eurasian plate, what will eventually happen?Volcanoes will form and erupt at the plate boundary.The African plate will break the Eurasian plate into pieces.The Mediterranean Sea will shrink and mountains will form.The Mediterranean Sea will become larger and earthquakes will happen.
- 7. Multiple ChoiceCoal forms from decayed plants that grew in hot, moist climates, so why is coal now found in cool climates such as Europe and North America?Europe and North America were once located near the equator.Europe and North America were once covered by deserts.The plants that form coal grow in the summer months.The plants that form coal adapted to cool climates over time.
- 8. Multiple Choice
What force was Wegener looking for to explain how the continents moved?
subduction zones at plate boundaries
hot spots under continents
magnetic reversals of the north and south poles
convection currents in the mantle
- 9. Multiple ChoiceWhat happens when more dense, oceanic crust collides with less dense, continental crust?oceanic crust sinks below continental crustoceanic crust rides above the continental crustcontinental crust sinks below the oceanic crustcontinental crust becomes thinner than oceanic crust
- 10. Multiple ChoiceWhat conclusion can a scientist make as a result of finding different fossils in a rock layer?the fossils are made up of cooled lavathe fossils formed after heat and pressure changed the type of rockthe fossils are made of the same material as the organisms that formed themthe fossils formed at about the same time as the rock layer they were found in
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