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- 1. Multiple Choice
This is a picture of glacier scars found in Africa. What are these evidence for?
Africa has always been near the equator
Africa was once in an area of the Earth that had a very cold climate
The continents have not moved
sea floor spreading
- 2. Multiple Choice
What does the theory of continental drift state?
The continents were once joined in a super-continent and have moved over time
Continents are stationary and do not move
The Earth is broken into lithospheric plates that move due to convection currents
none of the above
- 3. Multiple Choice
What evidence did Wegener use in his theory?
Continents and fossils fitting together/matching-up like puzzle pieces
glacier scars and evidence from temperature
mountain ranges and coal deposits line up across continents
all of the above
- 4. Multiple Choice
What kind of plate boundary is shown here?
divergent
convergent
transform
subducting
- 5. Multiple Choice
What kind of plate boundary is shown here?
divergent
convergent
transform
submergent
- 6. Multiple Choice
What kind of plate boundary is shown here?
divergent
convergent
transform
strike slip
- 7. Multiple Choice
What geologic feature/event you be most likely to find at a transform boundary?
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Mountains
Rift Valleys
- 8. Multiple Choice
What geologic feature/event would you most likely to find at a divergent boundary between two pieces of oceanic crust?
Rift Valley
Mid-Ocean Ridge
Island Arc
Flat land
- 9. Multiple Choice
What geologic feature/event would you most likely to find at a divergent boundary between two pieces of continental crust?
Mid-Ocean Ridge
Mountain
Rift Valley
Island Arc
- 10. Multiple ChoiceWhat geologic feature/event would you most likely to find at a convergent boundary between two pieces of continental crust?VolcanoMountainRiftIsland Arc
- 11. Multiple Choice
A subduction zone is formed...
when one tectonic plate sinks below another
at every type of convergent plate boundary
at every type of divergent plate boundary
at transform boundaries
- 12. Multiple Choice
Which of the following causes Earth's tectonic plates to move?
Energy from the Sun
Magnetic Pole Reversal
Convection currents in the mantle
Faults in Mountain Ranges
- 13. Multiple Choice
What is the elevation of point B?
800 ft
850 ft
900 ft
1000 ft
- 14. Multiple Choice
In which direction is Mill River flowing?
Southeast
Southwest
Northeast
Northwest
- 15. Multiple Choice
What would be the most likely way this coastline would change over time?
A fire could destroy the vegetation
The waves could erode the beach
The beach would grow due to deposition
The beach will disappear due to plate tectonics
- 16. Multiple Choice
These images compare the same stretch of coastline. What is a possible reason for the change?
A fire destroyed the beach and surrounding area
Overtime, water eroded away much of the land
A major catastrophe such as a hurricane or tsunami destroyed the area
The beach and land went through a sever drought
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