Plate tectonics
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- Q1According to Wegener's hypothesis of continental driftEarth's surface is made up of 7 major landmassesthe continents do not moveEarth is slowly cooling and shrinkingthe continents were once joined together in a single landmass30s
- Q2What is Pangaeathe name of an ancient fossilthe name of a German scientistthe name of the supercontinent that existed millions of years agoanother name for continental drift30s
- Q3Any trace of an ancient organism that has been preserved in rock is called afossillandformmountainlandmass30s
- Q4Which technology did scientists use in the mid-1900's to map the mid-ocean ridgesonarsatellitesdeep-sea diving30s
- Q5In sea floor spreading, molten material rises from the mantle and eruptsat deep ocean trenchesat the polesalong mid-ocean ridges30s
- Q6Old oceanic crust is more dense than new oceanic crust because it ishotcool30s
- Q7Most geologists think that the movement of Earth's plates is caused byconductionearthquakesconvection currents in the mantle30s
- Q8A place where 2 plates slip past each other, moving in opposite directions, is known asdivergent boundaryconvergent boundarytransform boundary30s
- Q9A place where plates move apart, or diverge, from each other is adivergent boundarytransform boundaryconvergent boundary30s
- Q10A place where plates come together or converge is aconvergent boundarydivergent boundarytransform boundary30s
- Q11A collision between 2 pieces of continental crust at a converging boundary produces amid-ocean ridgemountain rangevalleydeep-ocean trench30s
- Q12Why do scientists drill rock samples from the sea floor?to see what types of rocks they areto see how old the rocks are30s
- Q13Mid-ocean ridges arefound only in Pacific oceanfound in all of Earth's oceans30s
- Q14When ocean floor sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle is known assubductionconductionconvection30s
- Q15A rift valley forms at aconvergent plate boundarytransform boundarydivergent plate boundary30s